Venom failed to decode string in assertion

[neyaled]

We have a test where we would like to check that a message is correctly set.

The assertion is the following:

assertions:

• result.bodyjson.message ShouldContain 'Missing parameter: name'

The assertion fails with:

• 'Assertions[2]' expected type 'string', got unconvertible type 'map[interface {}]interface {}'
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Single quotes or Double quotes produce the same result. Escaping the ':' as well.

[strokyl]

The problem is that yaml processing is analyzing 'Missing parameter: name' as a mapping!
I had the same issue the solution is to use:

'result.bodyjson.message ShouldContain "Missing parameter: name"'

instead of:

result.bodyjson.message ShouldContain 'Missing parameter: name'

[matcornic]

I had the same issue. Here is a highlighted version of the explanation.

Doesn't work:

    - type: http
      method: POST
      url: "my/url"
      assertions:
        - result.statuscode ShouldEqual 400
        - result.bodyjson.message ShouldEqual "Missing parameter: name"

Works:

    - type: http
      method: POST
      url: "my/url"
      assertions:
        - result.statuscode ShouldEqual 400
        - 'result.bodyjson.message ShouldEqual "Missing parameter: name"'

Just wrap the whole assertion with quotes and it's good 👍

[yesnault]

cf. @matcornic response.