I use Jackson to generate a JSON formatted String from Java objects.
The generated JSON string is then sent in a HTTPResponse and Highcharts interprets it client-side to display a chart.
It was all fine until I found out I need to serialize a JavaScript function. E.g
"xAxis" : {
events {
setExtremes: function(event) {
//javascript code
}
}
}
I'm aware this is not valid JSON anymore but I need a workaround.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Although I know nothing about jackson, I had a similar problem doing this in a java json library.
What did was put a placeholder value where I wanted the function to go:
setExtremes: "SETEXTREMES_PLACEHOLDER"
Then when I had converted the json object to a json string, I did a string replace operation on the placeholder with the required function.
Not pretty, but it did the job.
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I'm writing some tests using rest-assured and its Kotlin extensions to test some simple Spring MVC endpoints. I'm trying to understand how to extract values.
One endpoint returns a BookDetailsView POJO, the other returns a Page<BookDetailsView> (where Page is an interface provided by Spring for doing paging).
BookDetailsView is a really simple Kotlin data class with a single field:
data class BookDetailsView(val id: UUID)
For the single object endpoint, I have:
#Test
fun `single object`() {
val details = BookDetailsView(UUID.randomUUID())
whenever(bookDetailsService.getBookDetails(details.id)).thenReturn(details)
val result: BookDetailsView = Given {
mockMvc(mockMvc)
} When {
get("/book_details/${details.id}")
} Then {
statusCode(HttpStatus.SC_OK)
} Extract {
`as`(BookDetailsView::class.java)
}
assertEquals(details.id, result.id)
}
This works as expected, but trying to apply the same technique for the Page<BookDetailsView> runs afoul of all sorts of parsing challenges since Page is an interface, and even trying to use PageImpl isn't entirely straightforward. In the end, I don't even really care about the Page object, I just care about the nested list of POJOs inside it.
I've tried various permutations like the code below to just grab the bit I care about:
#Test
fun `extract nested`() {
val page = PageImpl(listOf(
BookDetailsView(UUID.randomUUID())
))
whenever(bookDetailsService.getBookDetailsPaged(any())).thenReturn(page)
val response = Given {
mockMvc(mockMvc)
} When {
get("/book_details")
} Then {
statusCode(HttpStatus.SC_OK)
body("content.size()", `is`(1))
body("content[0].id", equalTo(page.first().id.toString()))
} Extract {
path<List<BookDetailsView>>("content")
}
println(response[0].javaClass)
}
The final println spits out class java.util.LinkedHashMap. If instead I try to actually use the object, I get class java.util.LinkedHashMap cannot be cast to class BookDetailsView. There are lots of questions and answers related to this, and I understand it's ultimately an issue of the underlying JSON parser not knowing what to do, but I'm not clear on:
Why does the "simple" case parse without issue?
Shouldn't the type param passed to the path() function tell it what type to use?
What needs configuring to make the second case work, OR
Is there some other approach for grabbing a nested object that would make more sense?
Digging a bit into the code, it appears that the two cases may actually be using different json parsers/configurations (the former seems to stick to rest-assured JSON parsing, while the latter ends up in JsonPath's?)
I don't know kotlin but here is the thing:
path() doesn't know the Element in your List, so it'll be LinkedHashMap by default instead of BookDetailsView.class
to overcome it, you can provide TypeReference for this.
java example
List<BookDetailsView> response = ....then()
.extract().jsonPath()
.getObject("content", new TypeRef<List<BookDetailsView>>() {});
kotlin example
#Test
fun `extract nested`() {
var response = RestAssured.given().get("http://localhost:8000/req1")
.then()
.extract()
.jsonPath()
.getObject("content", object : TypeRef<List<BookDetailsView?>?>() {});
println(response)
//[{id=1}, {id=2}]
}
I'm trying to send a POST request to the server, this post requires parameters "email" and "password".
but I don't know how to specify parameters, I read the documentation but I didn't understand.
this is my code:
val request=client.post<String> {
url(BASE_URL+"login.php")
body="email=$email,password=$password"
}
fwiw I use something like following here....though I would have thought specifying url like you do should also work. What issue do you see? The body might also be some json for example, or maybe a data class etc if you have serialization setup.
response = client.post(url) {
body = "some params/data etc"
}
It should work if you use serialization, but I solved my problem by using 'Uploading multipart/form-data'
val request=client.post(url) {
body=MultiPartFormDataContent(formData {
append("email","data")
append("password","data")
})
}
see Documentation
I have the following request json body:
{
...
"attachmentIds": "${attachments}"
...
}
I have a properties file that includes the declaration of the corresponding placeholder
I want to set array of strings in code instead of "attachments" placeholder, but getProperties().setProperty() expects only string value.
How can I achieve it other way or is it possible at all?
Thanks!
As an option you can transform your array into the String in java code. And then pass this String as property value.
Another option, you can pass String array from code and then parse it in your json template.
For example:
String[] arr = { "1", "2", "3" };
apiMethod.addProperty("attachments", arr);
And then in your json:
{
"attachmentIds": [<#list attachments as val>"${val}"<#if val?has_next>,</#if></#list>]
}
Check freemarker documentation to get more details:
https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/ref_builtins_loop_var.html
Also please note that some of freemarker functions (including has_next) are available only in newest versions of library. So make sure to add into your dependencies list. Carina is now in process of migrating to latest freemarker version.
I'm learning aspnet mvc 4 web api, and find it very easy to implement by simply returning the object in the apicontrollers.
However, when I try to return value types such as bool, int, string - it does not return in JSON format at all. (in Fiddler it showed 'true/false' result in raw and webview but no content in JSON at all.
Anyone can help me on this?
Thanks.
Some sample code for the TestApiController:
public bool IsAuthenticated(string username)
{
return false;
}
Some sample code for the jQuery usage:
function isAuthenticated(string username){
$.getJSON(OEliteAPIs.ApiUrl + "/api/membership/isauthenticated?username="+username,
function (data) {
alert(data);
if (data)
return true;
else
return false;
});
}
NOTE: the jquery above returns nothing because EMPTY content was returned - however if you check it in fiddler you can actually see "false" being returned in the webview.
cheers.
Before your callback function is called, the return data is passed to the jquery parseJSON method, which expects the data to be in the JSON format. jQuery will ignore the response data and return null if the response is not formatted correctly. You have two options, wrap you return boolean in a class or anonymous type so that web api will return a JSON object:
return new { isAuthentication = result }
or don't use getJSON from jQuery since you're not returning a properly formatted JSON response. Maybe just use $.get instead.
Below is a quote for the jQuery documentation:
Important: As of jQuery 1.4, if the JSON file contains a syntax error,
the request will usually fail silently. Avoid frequent hand-editing of
JSON data for this reason. JSON is a data-interchange format with
syntax rules that are stricter than those of JavaScript's object
literal notation. For example, all strings represented in JSON,
whether they are properties or values, must be enclosed in
double-quotes. For details on the JSON format, see http://json.org/.
Using Restlet 2.1 for Java EE, I am discovering an interesting problem with its ability to handle attributes.
Suppose you have code like the following:
cmp.getDefaultHost().attach("/testpath/{attr}",SomeServerResource.class);
and on your browser you provide the following URL:
http://localhost:8100/testpath/command
then, of course, the attr attribute gets set to "command".
Unfortunately, suppose you want the attribute to be something like command/test, as in the following URL:
http://localhost:8100/testpath/command/test
or if you want to dynamically add things with different levels, like:
http://localhost:800/testpath/command/test/subsystems/network/security
in both cases the attr attribute is still set to "command"!
Is there some way in a restlet application to make an attribute that can retain the "slash", so that one can, for example, make the attr attribute be set to "command/test"? I would like to be able to just grab everything after testpath and have the entire string be the attribute.
Is this possible? Someone please advise.
For the same case I usually change the type of the variable :
Route route = cmp.getDefaultHost().attach("/testpath/{attr}",SomeServerResource.class);
route.getTemplate().getVariables().get("attr") = new Variable(Variable.TYPE_URI_PATH);
You can do this by using url encoding.
I made the following attachment in my router:
router.attach("/test/{cmd}", TestResource.class);
My test resource class looks like this, with a little help from Apache Commons Codec URLCodec
#Override
protected Representation get() {
try {
String raw = ResourceWrapper.get(this, "cmd");
String decoded = new String(URLCodec.decodeUrl(raw.getBytes()));
return ResourceWrapper.wrap(raw + " " + decoded);
} catch(Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); }
}
Note my resource wrapper class is simply utility methods. The get returns the string of the url param, and the wrap returns a StringRepresentation.
Now if I do something like this:
http://127.0.0.1/test/haha/awesome
I get a 404.
Instead, I do this:
http://127.0.0.1/test/haha%2fawesome
I have URLEncoded the folder path. This results in my browser saying:
haha%2fawesome haha/awesome
The first is the raw string, the second is the result. I don't know if this is suitable for your needs as it's a simplistic example, but as long as you URLEncode your attribute, you can decode it on the other end.