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REST Assured doesn't accept curly brackets

Unable to use query in my Endpoint URL
I have tried using .queryParams() but it does not seem to work . I am getting the following error
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid number of path parameters.
Expected 1, was 0.Undefined path parameters are:
cycle-id[12345];test.name[Validate_REST_Assured_Curly_Brackets].
Can someone help me out
almQuery=https://{almurl}/qcbin/rest/domains/{domain}/projects/{project}/test-instances?query={cycle-id[12345];test.name[Validate_REST_Assured_Curly_Brackets]}
Response response = RestAssured.given().relaxedHTTPSValidation()
.contentType("application/xml")
.cookie(cookie) .get(getEntityEndpoint(almQuery)).then().extract().response();

This is how RestAssured implementation works. Whenever your url contains curly braces it will expect path param with for that. For example, if your url contains {project} you should provide a path param with name project.
The only way to avoid it is by manually encoding { and } characters in your url. You could use URLEncoder.encode(), but it will mess your other characters so try simply replacing all { and } with encoded values:
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String url = "http://www.example.com/path/{project}";
String encoded = encodeUrlBraces(url);
RestAssured.given()
.when()
.get(encoded);
}
private static String encodeUrlBraces(String url) {
return url.replaceAll("\\{", "%7B").replaceAll("}", "%7D");
}
}
Here's an answer for this from Rest Assured founder and contributor https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured/issues/682

How to use OpenFeign to get a pojo array?

I’m trying to use a OpenFeign client to hit an API, get some JSON, and convert it to a POJO array.
Previously I was simply getting a string of JSON and using Gson to convert it to the array like so
FeignInterface {
String get(Request req);
}
String json = feignClient.get(request);
POJO[] pojoArray = new Gson().fromJson(json, POJO[].class);
This was working. I would like to eliminate the extra step and have feign auto decode the JSON and return a POJO directly though, so I am trying this
FeignInterface {
POJO[] get(Request req);
}
POJO[] pojoArray = feignClient.getJsonPojo(request);`
I am running into this error
feign.codec.DecodeException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 2 path $
Both methods used the same builder
feignClient = Feign.builder()
.encoder(new GsonEncoder())
.decoder(new GsonDecoder())
.target(FeignInterface.class, apiUrl);
Anyone have any ideas?

You have broken JSON payload. Before serialising you need to remove all unsupported characters. Feign allows this:
If you need to pre-process the response before give it to the Decoder,
you can use the mapAndDecode builder method. An example use case is
dealing with an API that only serves jsonp, you will maybe need to
unwrap the jsonp before send it to the Json decoder of your choice:
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JsonpApi jsonpApi = Feign.builder()
.mapAndDecode((response, type) -> jsopUnwrap(response, type), new GsonDecoder())
.target(FeignInterface.class, apiUrl);
}
}
So, you need to do the same in your configuration and:
trim response and remove all whitespaces at the beginning and end of payload.
remove all new_line characters like: \r\n, \r, \n
Use online tool to be sure your JSON payload is valid and ready to be deserialised .

Unexpected JSon response from Spring Rest API Controller

I have a method in my Spring controller, in which I am returning an object containing a spring attribute with a value "\HelloWorld". To store it into Java String object I have to put escape character, then the string becomes "\\HelloWorld". When I print, that works totally fine and prints "\HelloWorld". but when I return it in JSon response, it's returning "\\HelloWorld".
But I want it to return "\HelloWorld".
Bellow is the snippet:
#RequestMapping("")
#ResponseBody
public MyDataObject greeting() {
MyDataObject f = new MyDataObject();
f.setMessage("\\HelloWorld");
return f;
}
It's Json response is "message":"\\HelloWorld", but I want it "\HelloWorld".
Note: I don't want to unescape manually specific to that string.

You can use a library such as Jakson and it will internally handle such complexities.
MyDataObject f = new MyDataObject();
f.setMessage("\\HelloWorld");
String payload = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(params);

Woocommerce API get all products

I tried to get product from API with some parameters. I used WooCommerce API Java Wrapper. REST API with OAuth 1.0. Simple getAll method return list of one page (10 products). To get all i must set how much products must be in one page and use offset. To get third page must send this parameters: "per_page=10&offset=20". I test with query in get&post programm - all work. In Java, when i added parameters - i got error (401)- "Invalid signature - the provided signature did not match".
I changed WooCommerceAPI class:
private static final String API_URL_FORMAT = "%s/wp-json/wc/v2/%s";
private static final String API_URL_ONE_ENTITY_FORMAT = "%s/wp-json/wc/v2/%s/%d";
private HttpClient client;
private OAuthConfig config;
public List getAll(String endpointBase) {
String url = String.format(API_URL_FORMAT, config.getUrl(), endpointBase) + "?per_page=10&offset=20";
String signature = OAuthSignature.getAsQueryString(config, url, HttpMethod.GET);
String securedUrl = String.format("%s&%s", url, signature);
System.out.println("url="+url);
System.out.println("securedUrl="+securedUrl);
return client.getAll(securedUrl);
}
But I have got the same error.

I've just released a new version of wc-api-java library (version 1.2) and now you can use the method getAll with params argument where you can put additional request parameters. For example:
// Get all with request parameters
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<>();
params.put("per_page","100");
params.put("offset","0");
List products = wooCommerce.getAll(EndpointBaseType.PRODUCTS.getValue(), params);
System.out.println(products.size());

As you noticed, you changed URL_SECURED_FORMAT from "%s?%s" to "%s&%s", as soon as you added query params. But problem is that signature is generated based on all query params, not only oauth_*, and your params offset and per_page are ignored while generating signature (as soon as lib author did not expect additional params).
Think that you need to modify this lib to support signature based on all params.

How to get SoapUI request and response XML in java

I'm using the SoapUI API as part of an existing java project.
The application should save the request and response XML in an specific report file.
I wonder if it's possible to get those requests and responses via the API.
The method invoking the TestCaseRunner looks like this
protected void checkTestCase(TestCase testCase) {
TestCaseRunner tr = testCase.run(null, false);
for (TestStepResult tcr : tr.getResults()) {
String status = tcr.getStatus();
String time = tcr.getTimeTaken() + "ms";
/* How to get XML messages?
* String request =
* String response =
*/
}
}

Depending on exactly what kind of test steps you have they might be an instance of a MessageExchange. Casting the TestStepResult to a MessageExchange and calling getRequestContent / getResponseContent might do the trick.
String request = ((MessageExchange)tcr).getRequestContent();
String response = ((MessageExchange)tcr).getResponseContent();

I have used the following way to get the response from the API CAll performed:
runner = testRunner.runTestStepByName("Your Test Case name");
// Here we take the response in ms of the API call
timeTaken = runner.response.timeTaken;
// here we get the HTTP response code.
responseCode = runner.getResponseHeaders()."#status#";
// here we get the response content
String response = runner.getResponseContent();
// here we get the API call endpoint -> in case you need to print it out.
String endPoint = runner.getEndpoint();