How do you send XML post request using rest-assured? - rest-assured

Question

I have to send a post request with xml data and then validate the response like example checking the status code and response body.

Answer 1

You can either pass a pojo (remember to set the content-type to application/xml) and rest assured will automatically transform it into XML. For example:
#XmlRootElement
public class Greeting {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}
}
and then you can use it like this:
Greeting greeting = new Greeting();
greeting.setFirstName("John");
greeting.setLastName("Doe");
given().contentType(ContentType.XML).and().body(object).when().post("/somewhere"). ..
it'll send the following XML:
<greeting>
<firstName>John</firstName>
<lastName>Doe</lastName>
</greeting>
Let's say that the server is responding with the same XML as the one you see above then you can validate the response status code and body like this:
given().
contentType(ContentType.XML).
body(object).
when().
post("/somewhere").
then().
statusCode(200).
body("greeting.firstName", equalTo("John")).
body("greeting.lastName", equalTo("Doe"));
REST Assured will automatically understand the the response body is XML if the server returns an XML content-type. Note that equalTo is statically imported from org.hamcrest.Matchers#equalTo.