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How to get read a JSON string from a file in Mule 4

I'm trying to create an MUnit test that mocks an HTTP request by setting the payload to a JSON object that I have saved in a file. In Mule 3 I would have just done getResource('fileName.json').asString() and that worked just fine. In Mule 4 though, I can't statically call getResource.
I found a forum post on the Mulesoft forums that suggested I use MunitTools::getResourceAsString. When I run my test, I do see the JSON object but with all the \n and \r characters as well as a \ escaping all of the quotation marks. Obviously this means my JSON is no longer well formed.
Ideally I would like to find a reference for MunitTools so that I can see a list of functions that I can call and maybe find one that does not add the escape characters, but I haven't had any luck. If anybody knows of a some reference document that I can refer to, please let me know.
Not being able to find a way to return the data without the extra characters, I tried replacing them via dataweave. This is fine when replacing \n and \r, but as there are also more \s in front of each double quote and I can't seem to make these go away.
If I do this...
replace (/\/) with ("")
...I get an error. A co-worker suggested targeting the each \" and replacing them with ", but that's a problem because that gives me """. To get around this, I've tried
replace(/\"/) with "\""
...which does not cause any errors, but for some reason it reads the \ as a literal so it replaces the original string with itself. I've also tried...
replace(/\"/) with '"'
...but that also results in an error
I'm open to any other solutions as well.
Thanks
--Drew

I had the same concern so I started using the readUrl() method. This is a DataWeave method so you should be able to use it in any MUnit processor. Here is an example of how I used it in the set event processor. It reads the JSON file and then converts it into Java for my own needs but you can just replace java with JSON for your needs.
<munit:set-event doc:name="Set Event" doc:id="e7b1da19-f746-4964-a7ae-c23aedce5e6f" >
<munit:payload mediaType="application/java" value="#[output application/java --- readUrl('classpath://singleItemRequest.json','application/json')]"/>
</munit:set-event>
Here is the documentation for readUrl https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.2/dw-core-functions-readurl
Hope that helps!

Follow this snippet (more specifically the munit-tools:then-return tag):
<munit-tools:mock-when doc:name="Mock GET /users" doc:id="89c8b7fb-1e94-446f-b9a0-ef7840333328" processor="http:request" >
<munit-tools:with-attributes >
<munit-tools:with-attribute attributeName="doc:name" whereValue="GET /users" />
</munit-tools:with-attributes>
<munit-tools:then-return>
<munit-tools:payload value="#[read(MunitTools::getResourceAsString('examples/responses/anypoint-get-users-response.json'), "application/json")]" />
</munit-tools:then-return>
</munit-tools:mock-when>
It mocks an HTTP request and returns a JSON object using the read() function.

Order By doesnt work on Google Spreadsheet API

I am trying to sort a Google Spreadsheet with the Java API but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The code I am using is really simple as shown in the API reference.
URL listFeedUrl = new URI(worksheet.getListFeedUrl().toString() + "?orderby=columnname").toURL();
However, this does not work. The feed returned is not sorted at all. Am I missing something? FYI the column I am trying to sort contains email addresses.
EDIT: I just realized that the problem only happens with the old version of Google Spreadsheet.

maybe this happens. The query is performed on the spreadsheet xml and xml tags are in lower case, for example the title of my column in my spreadseet is "Nombre" and the xml <gsx:nombre>is not working so instead of using [?orderby=Nombre], use [?orderby=nombre] with a lowercase "n"
The correct query for this is.
URL listFeedUrl = new URI(worksheet.getListFeedUrl().toString() + "?orderby=nombre").toURL();

Reading xml and storing values as a string in android

I m new in Android development and never been in JAVA before.
With online tutorials and stackoverflow help I managed to generate a list with XML,
Now I m making it work like if I clicked on list item, it will open other activity.
With php I managed to generate xml I want on request but now in android I want that single entry XML
<item name="something"><description>Item description</description></item>
like this. But I'm not sure how can I read this remote xml and store values as a string
String name = Name attribite value & same for description.

You should use a parser like as Pullparser, Saxparser or something what you need.
You can follow the following: Parsing example

Make one SOAP Web service and call it from Android application. Please find tutorial here
Regarding SOAP:- http://suda.co.uk/publications/MSc/brian.suda.thesis.pdf
And regarding how to use with Android:- http://androidtestexample.blogspot.in/2012/02/soap.html

How can I inject an XML file using Selenium?

I have the path to my XML file on my computer, but how can I use selenium (web automation tool) to inject the XML file ?
Usually how it is done (manually) is navigate to the URL and COPY AND PASTE the entire XML text into the provided text box..
Any ideas how to inject the file using automation ? There is no way to "drag" the XML file to the text box and I believe the way I'm thinking that it will work is very complicated.

I think this is actually what you want -
File xml = new File("xmlpath");
String url = xml.getAbsolutePath();
url = url.replace('\\', '/');
url = url.replace(" ", "%20");
String actual = "file:/" + url;
selenium.open(actual);
Then you should be able to get the xml using String theXML = selenium.getText("//rootxmlnode"); Then do what you will with it.

Check out the topic of Data Driven Testing to get you started. Something like this should get you going.

Selenium tool allows you to create an automatically generated code in Java.
So, you need to place any text in the provided text box and generate this Java-test code.
Next step is modifying of the generated test. You have to manually write a simplest code, which will read your XML file, get it contents and paste into the text box. The last thing is replacement (in the generated Java code of test!) of the mentioned above text-block to the contents of read XML.
A simplest way for reading file into a string is using Apache commons-io library.
For example: FileUtils.readFileToString(File file, String encoding) gives you a string object with contents of the file.

How to convert List<Object> to JSON on playframework Java

First of all, I am using playframework 2 with Java.
I have a Bootstrap-lookahead input field in a view and I want to use a json array as source for it, as described here.
I can generate json at server-side with:
Json.toJson(users)
or on client with:
#{Json.toJson(users)}
However it generates strings with " and when I try to create the bootstrap-lookahead field with this data, it gives me
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token &
Could someone help me with that?
Thank you

You can prevent escaping by using #Html(Json.toJson(users)) in template.
Docs, last paragraph