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Johan Haleby edited this page Apr 20, 2018 · 9 revisions

Release Notes for REST Assured 3.1.0

Contents

  1. Highlights
  2. Other Notable Changes
  3. Non-backward compatible changes
  4. Minor Changes

Highlights

  • Now using java.lang.reflect.Type instead of java.lang.Class in the API for mapping to Java objects. For users of the REST Assured API the change is mostly prominent in the ResponseBodyExtractionOptions interface where the as method now takes a java.lang.reflect.Type instead of java.lang.Class. This should not cause any backward incompatibilities unless you've written a custom ObjectMapperFactory. See non-backward compatible changes if this is the case.

  • Allow querying (extracting values out of) a request specification without using a filter by using the io.restassured.specification.SpecificationQuerier. For example:

    RequestSpecification spec = ...
QueryableRequestSpecification queryable = SpecificationQuerier.query(spec);
String headerValue = queryable.getHeaders().getValue("header");
String param = queryable.getFormParams().get("someparam");

  • It's now possible to parse and include additional input fields when using form authentication. Just use the FormAuthConfig and specify the additional values to include. For example if you have an html page that looks like this:

    <html>
 <head>
     <title>Login</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <form action="/login" method="POST">
     <table>
         <tr>
             <td>User:&nbsp;</td>
             <td><input type="text" name="j_username"></td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
             <td>Password:</td>
             <td><input type="password" name="j_password"></td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
             <td colspan="2"><input name="submit" type="submit"/></td>
         </tr>
     </table>
     <input type="hidden" name="firstInputField" value="value1"/>
     <input type="hidden" name="secondInputField" value="value2"/>
 </form>
 </body>
</html>

    and you'd like to include the value of form parameters firstInputField and secondInputField you can do like this:

     given().auth().form("username", "password", formAuthConfig().withAdditionalFields("firstInputField", "secondInputField"). ..

    REST Assured will automatically parse the HTML page, find the values for the additional fields and include them as form parameters in the login request.

Other Notable Changes

  • Add better integration for standard HTTP methods with Apache HttpClient which also solves an issue content-type header being generated for empty GET requests

  • No longer using DEF_CONTENT_CHARSET from Apache HttpClient since it caused compatibility issues

  • Removing Authorization header when setting auth().none()

  • Fixed so that it's possible to specify arguments to root paths in multi expectation blocks such as:

    get("/jsonStore").then()
  .root("store.book.find { it.author == '%s' }.price")
  .body(
          withArgs("Nigel Rees"), is(8.95f),
          withArgs("Evelyn Waugh"), is(12.99f),
          withArgs("Herman Melville"), is(8.99f),
          withArgs("J. R. R. Tolkien"), is(22.99f)
  );

Non-backward compatible changes

  • If you've written a custom ObjectMapperFactory you need to change the signature of the create method. For example if you previously had a custom JAXBObjectMapperFactory that looked like this:

    public class MyJAXBObjectMapperFactory implements JAXBObjectMapperFactory {
   public JAXBContext create(Class cls, String charset) {
       ...
   }
}

    you now need to change it to:

     public class MyJAXBObjectMapperFactory implements JAXBObjectMapperFactory {
      public JAXBContext create(Type cls, String charset) {
          ...
      }
 }

    Note the change from java.lang.Class to java.lang.reflect.Type. This was needed for swagger integration.

Minor changes

See change log for more details.

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