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How to fill in empty double value in test DTO, Java, Spring

So I am testing the controller of my application and I stumbled upon a problem.
This is the Json I use in my testcode:
String bike = "{" +
" \"bikeNumber\" : \"E2\"," +
" \"brand\" : \"Gazelle\"," +
" \"frameNumber\" : \"HA1234568\"," +
" \"retailPrice\" : 1200," +
" \"basePrice\" : 20.0," +
" \"electric\" : true" +
"}";
I want to test when the user doesn't fill in one of the values, it throws an exception. In other words I want to test the #NotNull, #NotBlank annotations.
I have done this for bikeNumber and frameNumber, these are string types and I can leave them open. The problem I get if I leave the basePrice open and run my test, I get an error saying:
java.lang.AssertionError: No value at JSON path "$.basePrice"
I know that it's a null value because I haven't filled it in, but that is part of the plan. So my question is, how do I leave a long, double or int value empty without getting a test error.
My full code block is here:
#Test
void whenPostRequestNoBasePrice_thenBadRequestResponse() throws Exception {
String bike = "{" +
" \"bikeNumber\" : \"E1\"," +
" \"brand\" : \"Gazelle\"," +
" \"frameNumber\" : \"HA1234568\"," +
" \"retailPrice\" : 1200," +
" \"basePrice\" : \"\" " +
" \"electric\" : true" +
"}";
mockMvc.perform(MockMvcRequestBuilders.post("/createbike")
.content(bike)
.contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON))
.andExpect(status().isBadRequest())
.andExpect(jsonPath("$.basePrice", Is.is( "Base price is mandatory.")))
.andExpect(MockMvcResultMatchers.content().contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)).andReturn().getResponse().getContentAsString();
}
I tried multiple things, also with and without the comma: "basePrice" : "" ," +
Also I can't seem to find this anywhere on stackoverflow.

Randomly changing the JSON Values for every "Post" Request Body using Java

This could be a duplicate question, but I couldn't find my solution anywhere. Hence, posting it.
I am trying to simply POST a request for a Student account Creation Scenario. I do have a JSON file which comprises all the "Keys:Values", required for Student account creation.
This is how the file student_Profile.json looks like:
{
"FirstName":"APi1-Stud-FN",
"MiddleInitial":"Q",
"LastName":"APi1-Stud-LN",
"UserAlternateEmail":"",
"SecretQuestionId":12,
"SecretQuestionAnswer":"Scot",
"UserName":"APi1-stud#xyz.com",
"VerifyUserName":"APi1-stud#xyz.com",
"Password":"A123456",
"VerifyPassword":"A123456",
"YKey":"123xyz",
"YId":6,
"Status":false,
"KeyCode":"",
"SsoUserName":"APi1-stud#xyz.com",
"SsoPassword":"",
"BirthYear":2001
}
So everything on Posting the request from "Rest Assured" point of view looks fine, it's just that I want to update a few values from the above JSON body using JAVA so that I can create a new Student profile every time I run my function and don't have to manually change the Body.
For Every POST Student Account Creation scenario, I need to update the value for
the following keys so that a new test student user account can be created:
First Name
Last Name and
Username // "VerifyUserName" and "SSO UserName" will remain same as user name

I modified the answer to get random values and pass them to json body. random value generation was taken from the accepted answer of this question.
public void testMethod() {
List<String> randomValueList = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
String SALTCHARS = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890";
StringBuilder salt = new StringBuilder();
Random rnd = new Random();
while (salt.length() < 18) { // length of the random string.
int index = (int) (rnd.nextFloat() * SALTCHARS.length());
salt.append(SALTCHARS.charAt(index));
}
randomValueList.add(salt.toString());
}
String jsonBody = "{\n" +
" \"FirstName\":\"" + randomValueList.remove(0) + "\",\n" +
" \"MiddleInitial\":\"Q\",\n" +
" \"LastName\":\"" + randomValueList.remove(0) + "\",\n" +
" \"UserAlternateEmail\":\"\",\n" +
" \"SecretQuestionId\":12,\n" +
" \"SecretQuestionAnswer\":\"Scot\",\n" +
" \"UserName\":\"" + randomValueList.remove(0) + " \",\n" +
" \"VerifyUserName\":\"APi1-stud#xyz.com\",\n" +
" \"Password\":\"A123456\",\n" +
" \"VerifyPassword\":\"A123456\",\n" +
" \"YKey\":\"123xyz\",\n" +
" \"YId\":6,\n" +
" \"Status\":false,\n" +
" \"KeyCode\":\"\",\n" +
" \"SsoUserName\":\"APi1-stud#xyz.com\",\n" +
" \"SsoPassword\":\"\",\n" +
" \"BirthYear\":2001\n" +
"}";
Response response = RestAssured
.given()
.body(jsonBody)
.when()
.post("api_url")
.then()
.extract()
.response();
// Do what you need to do with the response body
}

We can used pojo based approach to do certain things very easily . No matter how complex is the payload , serialization and dieselization is the best answer . I have created a framework template for api automation that can we used by putting required POJO's in path :
https://github.com/tanuj-vishnoi/pojo_api_automation
To create pojo, I also have ready to eat food for you :
https://github.com/tanuj-vishnoi/pojo_generator_using_jsonschema2pojo
for the above problem you can refer to the JsonPath lib https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath and use this code:
String mypayload = "{\n" +
" \"FirstName\":\"APi1-Stud-FN\",\n" +
" \"MiddleInitial\":\"Q\",\n" +
" \"LastName\":\"APi1-Stud-LN\"}";
Map map = JsonPath.parse(mypayload).read("$",Map.class);
System.out.println(list);
once the payload converted into map you can change only required values as per the requirement
To generate random strings you can refer to lib org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils;
public static String generateUniqueString(int lenghtOfString){
return
RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(lenghtOfString).toLowerCase();
}
I recommend to store payload in a separate file and load it at runtime.

Using JSONAssert to check if an item exists in a JSON array

I have a JSONObject that is similar to something like this:
{
"category":"abc"
"staus":""open"
"external":[
{"name":"123", "type":"OTHER"},
{"name":"678", "type":"ALPHA"},
{"name":"890", "type":"DELTA"}
]
}
If I want to use JSONAssert to check if the item {"name":"678"} exists and I don't know the item's order and the number of items in the "external" array, how should I do in Java?
It seems the ArrayValueMatcher should be the way to go but I just cannot get it works.
Please help

You could use JsonPath for this usecase :
JSONArray array = JsonPath.read(json, "$.external[?(#.name == '678')]");
Assertions.assertThat(array).hasSize(1);

Here is a complete example using JsonAssert:
#Test
public void foo() throws Exception {
String jsonString = "{\n" +
" \"category\":\"abc\",\n" +
" \"staus\":\"open\",\n" +
" \"external\":[\n" +
" {\"name\":\"123\", \"type\":\"OTHER\"},\n" +
" {\"name\":\"678\", \"type\":\"ALPHA\"},\n" +
" {\"name\":\"890\", \"type\":\"DELTA\"}\n" +
" ]\n" +
"}";
JsonAssert.with(jsonString).assertThat("$.external[*].name", hasItem(equalTo("678")));
}

URL in JSON object as POST request Android

Please help me to send a JSON object in POST HTTP request through HttpClient, in Android.
The problem I am facing is that the JSON object having the URL is replaced by forward slash ,i.e
originally it should have the following value in JSON object
{"product":
{"featured_src":"https:\/\/example.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sidney-compressed.jpg,
"short_description":"this is a test","title":"Raiders from the North"}
}
i tried many options to keep it in the above format. But it always comes as {"featured_src":

We assume this is your input
private final static String JSON_DATA = "{"
+ " \"product\": ["
+ " {"
+ " \"featured_src\": \"https:\\/\\/example.com\\/wp-content"
+ "\\/uploads\\/2015\\/06\\/sidney-compressed.jpg\","
+ " \"short_description\": \"this is a test\","
+ " \"title\" : \"Raiders from the North\""
+ " }"
+ " ]"
+ "}";
You could use replace to do the trick.
YOUR_STRING.replace("\\", "");
Finally your method would look like this, by passing your string as parameter
private static String jsonUrlCorrector(String json_data) {
json_data = json_data.replace("\\", "");
return json_data;
}
Here is the input:
{"product":[{"featured_src":"https:\/\/example.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sidney-compressed.jpg","short_description": "this is a test","title":"Raiders from the North"}]}
Here is the output
{"product":[{"featured_src":"https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/sidney-compressed.jpg","short_description":"this is a test","title":"Raiders from the North"}]}

How to use GetLineReq in AXL Java Client using JAX-WS

What I'm trying to do is to obtain a Directory Number from CUCM, using the AXL API from Cisco. Here's the relevant Code:
private void getNumber(){
AXLAPIService axlService = new AXLAPIService();
AXLPort axlPort = axlService.getAXLPort();
String validatorUrl = "https://mycucm:8443/axl/";
((BindingProvider) axlPort).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, validatorUrl);
((BindingProvider) axlPort).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, Demo.ucAdmin);
((BindingProvider) axlPort).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, Demo.ucPswd);
GetLineReq axlParams = new GetLineReq();
axlParams.setPattern("7491817");
axlParams.setUuid("{48a6ff28-cea7-fc3e-3d82-8cc245ed4ea3}");
GetLineRes getLineResponse = axlPort.getLine(axlParams);
Demo.informUser("Line Information: \n"
+ "Alerting Name: " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getAlertingName() + "\n"
+ "Dial Number: " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getPattern() + "\n"
+ "Description: " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getDescription() + "\n"
+ " " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getShareLineAppearanceCssName());
}
As you can tell from this diagram it is only necessary to specify either the uuid or the pattern of the number:
But the code only works, if I specify the uuid, which is not, what I'm trying to achieve. The only thing i have given, is the pattern, which I want to use, to get all the other information. I Already examined this site from Cisco: How to ... Create an AXL Java Client using JAX-WS
When I leave out the uuid I get this Error:
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: Item not valid: The specified Line was not found
I also checked, how the Directory Number is stored inside the CUCM Database using the AXLSqlToolkit:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"><SOAP-ENV:Header/><SOAP-ENV:Body><axl:executeSQLQueryResponse xmlns:axl="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/API/7.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" sequence="1405672933992"><return><row><dnorpattern>7491817</dnorpattern><pkid>48a6ff28-cea7-fc3e-3d82-8cc245ed4ea3</pkid></row></return></axl:executeSQLQueryResponse></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
Does anyone know, how I can obtain the Directory Number, only by using the pattern-value?

I figured it out myself. The routePartitionName is also a mandatory parameter, which had to be specified. Here's the working code of my method:
private void getNumber(){
AXLAPIService axlService = new AXLAPIService();
AXLPort axlPort = axlService.getAXLPort();
String validatorUrl = "https://mycucm:8443/axl/";
((BindingProvider) axlPort).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, validatorUrl);
((BindingProvider) axlPort).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, Demo.ucAdmin);
((BindingProvider) axlPort).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, Demo.ucPswd);
GetLineReq axlParams = new GetLineReq();
ObjectFactory objectFactory = new ObjectFactory(); //This is new
XFkType routePartition = new XFkType();
routePartition.setValue("PHONES"); // This is where you specify your route partition name
axlParams.setPattern("7491817");
axlParams.setRoutePartitionName(objectFactory.createGetLineReqRoutePartitionName(routePartition));
GetLineRes getLineResponse = axlPort.getLine(axlParams);
Demo.informUser("Line Information: \n"
+ "Alerting Name: " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getAlertingName() + "\n"
+ "Dial Number: " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getPattern() + "\n"
+ "Description: " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getDescription() + "\n"
+ " " + getLineResponse.getReturn().getLine().getShareLineAppearanceCssName());
}