NMatcher

NMatcher is a test utility, that lets you easier test responses and json, when some part of the response is something out of your control (autogenerated id, guid, datetime etc).

Installation:

Install-Package NMatcher

Here is an overview what NMatcher can do for you:

[Fact]
public void it_matches_nested_json()
{
    var matcher = new Matcher();

    var result = matcher.MatchJson(
        @"
        {
            ""id"" : ""5a645a20-5225-431b-8c62-031b87f58b73"",
            ""subnode"" : {
                ""city"" : ""NY"",
                ""zipCode"" : ""80-000"",
                ""status"" : ""enabled"",
                ""url"" : ""http://example.com/foo/bar?query=q"",
                ""meta"" : {
                    ""name"" : ""fuuuuuu"",
                    ""shipping"": 99.99,
                    ""enabled"" : false,
                    ""_link"" : ""http://example.com?page=2"",
                    ""_something"" : null,
                    ""_arr"" : [1, 2, 3],
                    ""_arr2"" : [10, 20, 30],
                    ""_date"" : ""2018-01-01""
                }
            },
            ""subnodeArr"": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
        }",
        @"
        {
            ""id"" : ""@guid@"",
            ""subnode"" : {
                ""city"" : ""NY"",
                ""zipCode"" : ""@string@"",
                ""status"" : ""@string@.OneOf('enabled', 'disabled')"",
                ""url"" : ""http://@string@.Contains('example')/foo/@string@?query=@string@"",
                ""meta"" : {
                    ""name"" : ""@string@.Contains('fuu')"",
                    ""shipping"": ""@double@"",
                    ""enabled"" : ""@bool@"",
                    ""_link"" : ""@any@"",
                    ""_something"" : ""@null@"",
                    ""_arr"" : [1, 2, 3],
                    ""_arr2"" : ""@array@"",
                    ""_date"" : ""@string@.IsDateTime()"",
                    ""_signature"" : ""@string?@.Contains('sha')""
                }
            },
            ""subnodeArr"": [1, 2, 3, ""@skip@""]
        }"
    );

    Assert.True(result.Successful);
}

Skipping a set of following elements while matching json

Sometimes our responses can include a large list of elements. While asserting our protocol of given endpoint, we may be just interested in general structure assertion of first element, while skipping others. We can achieve that as follows

var result = matcher.MatchJson(
    @"
    [
        { ""id"": ""5001"", ""type"": ""None"" },
        { ""id"": ""5002"", ""type"": ""Glazed"" },
        { ""id"": ""5005"", ""type"": ""Sugar"" },
        { ""id"": ""5007"", ""type"": ""Powdered Sugar"" },
        { ""id"": ""5006"", ""type"": ""Chocolate with Sprinkles"" },
        { ""id"": ""5003"", ""type"": ""Chocolate"" },
        { ""id"": ""5004"", ""type"": ""Maple"" }
    ]",
    @"
    [
        { ""id"": ""@string@"", ""type"": ""@string@"" },
        ""@skip@""
    ]
    "
);

Assert.True(result.Successful);

Available expressions:

• @string@
• @int@
• @double@
• @bool@
• @null@
• @any@
• @guid@
• @array@

Expressions come with optional types as well (@string?@, @int?@ etc).

Basic usage wraps around two methods:

using NMatcher();

var matcher = new Matcher();

matcher.MatchExpression("string", "@string@.Contains('str')"); // matching expression
matcher.MatchJson(@"{""enabled"" : true}", @"{""enabled"" : ""@bool@""}"); // matching json

Usage:

String matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression("2018-01-01 11:00:12", "@string@.IsDateTime()");
matcher.MatchExpression("str", "@string@");
matcher.MatchExpression("foobar", "@string@.OneOf('foobar', 'baz')")
matcher.MatchExpression("string", "@string@.Contains('str')");
matcher.MatchExpression(null, "@string?@.Contains('str')"); //optional

Int matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression(1000, "@int@");
matcher.MatchExpression(11, "@int@.GreaterThan(10)");
matcher.MatchExpression(11, "@int@.LowerThan(100)");
matcher.MatchExpression(11, "@int@.GreaterThan(10).LowerThan(20)");
matcher.MatchExpression(null, "@int?@)"); //optional

Double matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression(100.00, "@double@");
matcher.MatchExpression(17.59, "@double@.GreaterThan(17.50)");
matcher.MatchExpression(9.5, "@double@.LowerThan(10.0)");
matcher.MatchExpression(null, "@double?@)"); //optional

Null matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression(null, "@null@")

Wildcard matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression("string", "@any@");
matcher.MatchExpression(123, "@any@");
matcher.MatchExpression(99.99, "@any@");
matcher.MatchExpression(false, "@any@");

Guid matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression("843475f5-f7c9-4a28-b028-a3a7dc456e91", "@guid@");
matcher.MatchExpression("C56A4180-65AA-42EC-A945-5FD21DEC0538", "@guid@");
matcher.MatchExpression(null, "@guid?@)"); //optional

Array matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression(new int[] { 1, 2, 3 }, "@array@");
matcher.MatchExpression(new string[] { "fuu", "bar", "baz" }, "@array@");

Compound matching:

var matcher = new Matcher();
matcher.MatchExpression("https://amazon.com/dp/1SOTO", "https://@string@.Contains(\"amazon\")/dp/@string@")
matcher.MatchExpression("https://amazon.com?isFoo=true", "https://@string@.Contains(\"amazon\")?isFoo=@bool@")
matcher.MatchExpression("https://amazon.com?page=1", "https://@string@.Contains(\"amazon\")?page=@int@")

JSON matching:

This is where NMatcher shines. Check the first example from README. It allows to combine all expression to achieve easy to use json response matching in your test. All checks can be wrapped with optional condition (eg @string?@), which will ommit assertion when expected node was not found in actual json.

Integration with test frameworks

FluentAssertions via package NMatcher.FluentAssertions.

using NMatcher.FluentAssertions;

[Fact]
public async Task it_returns_200_with_product()
{
    var id = Guid.NewGuid();
    await ProductContext.ProductExist(id, "Shampoo", 19.99M);

    var response = await Client.GetAsync($"api/1.0/products/{id}");
    response.StatusCode.Should().Be(HttpStatusCode.OK);

    var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

    contents.Should().MatchJson(@"
        {
          ""Id"": ""@guid@"",
          ""Name"": ""Shampoo"",
          ""Price"": ""19.99""
        }
    ");
}

License

This library is distributed under the MIT license. Please see the LICENSE file.

Credits

Original php-matcher.