This library provides RSpec matcher for testing JSON string.
- parsing a given value as JSON string
- handy pattern matching with
#===method like case-when statement - supporting nested pattern matching
Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:
$ bundle add rspec-json_matcher
If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:
$ gem install rspec-json_matcher
# spec/spec_helper.rb
require "rspec/json_matcher"
RSpec.configuration.include RSpec::JsonMatcher- be_json
- be_json_including
- be_json_as
{ "a" => "b", "c" => "d" }.to_json.should be_json
{ "a" => "b", "c" => "d" }.to_json.should be_json_including("a" => "b")
{ "a" => "b", "c" => "d" }.to_json.should be_json_as("a" => "b", "c" => "d")[
{
"url" => "https://api.github.com/gists/17a07d0a27fd3f708f5f",
"id" => "1",
"description" => "description of gist",
"public" => true,
"user" => {
"login" => "octocat",
"id" => 1,
"avatar_url" => "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
"gravatar_id" => "somehexcode",
"url" => "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
},
"files" => {
"ring.erl" => {
"size" => 932,
"filename" => "ring.erl",
"raw_url" => "https://gist.github.com/raw/365370/8c4d2d43d178df44f4c03a7f2ac0ff512853564e/ring.erl"
}
},
"comments" => 0,
"comments_url" => "https://api.github.com/gists/6fb6af8cb6e26dbbc327/comments/",
"html_url" => "https://gist.github.com/1",
"git_pull_url" => "git://gist.github.com/1.git",
"git_push_url" => "[email protected]:1.git",
"created_at" => "2010-04-14T02:15:15Z"
}
].to_json.should be_json_as([
{
"url" => /^https:/,
"id" => /^\d+$/,
"description" => /gist/,
"public" => true,
"user" => Hash,
"files" => Hash,
"comments" => Fixnum,
"comments_url" => /^https:/,
"html_url" => /^https:/,
"git_pull_url" => /^git:/,
"git_push_url" => /^git@/,
"created_at" => /^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\dT\d\d:\d\d:\d\dZ/,
}
])