Does dredd examine response body to determine pass / fail?

[apiaryio]

Does dredd examine response body to determine pass / fail?

[ecordell]

Validation is handled by gavel.js and not by dredd, so this should really be an issue over there.

What happens is that the body is parsed into a representative json schema, and I suspect it's just not generating a schema properly for your case. Support for root-level arrays is the most recent addition to gavel, and I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't coverage for this situation.

Short term solution for you: if you provide your own json schema, it will validate against that instead, so you can manually specify that the number of items is important.

[Almad]

That said, we are still going to look into it in gavel.

[gaxunil]

OK thanks a lot. I appreciate the replies. Very cool stuff.

[netmilk]

I try to replicate it on latest dredd v0.3.7 and it seems to be no longer valid. Gavel generates schema for each member in the array so real response array must contain at least same amount of members as specified in blueprint.

info: Beginning Dredd testing...
127.0.0.1 - - [Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:07:58 GMT] "GET /machines HTTP/1.1" 200 70 "-" "Dredd/0.3.7 (Darwin 13.2.0; x64)"
fail: GET /machines duration: 11ms
info: Displaying failed tests...
fail: GET /machines duration: 11ms
fail: body: The ‘1’ property is required.
body: The 1 property must be an object (current value is undefined).
body: The ‘1,_id’ property is required.
body: The ‘1,type’ property is required.
body: The ‘1,name’ property is required.

request: 
body: 

headers: 
    User-Agent: Dredd/0.3.7 (Darwin 13.2.0; x64)

uri: /machines
method: GET


expected: 
headers: 
    content-type: application/json

body: 
[
  {
    "_id": "52341870ed55224b15ff07ef",
    "type": "bulldozer",
    "name": "willy"
  },
  {
    "_id": "12345",
    "type": "car",
    "name": "tommy"
  }
]
statusCode: 200


actual: 
statusCode: 200
headers: 
    x-powered-by: Express
    content-type: application/json
    content-length: 70
    date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:07:58 GMT
    connection: keep-alive

body: 
[
  {
    "_id": "12345",
    "type": "car",
    "name": "tommy"
  }
]



complete: 0 passing, 1 failing, 0 errors, 0 skipped
complete: Tests took 20ms