Cucumber: Using JSON Parser

JavaScript Object Notation(JSON) is a lightweight data-interchange format useful to generate and parse data

Sample Data:

{‘user’:{‘FirstName’:’User1′, ‘LastName’:’Sample’, ‘Gender’:’Female’, ‘BirthDate’:’01/01/1990′}}

Suppose we are to use the above user data, parse it into an hash and use the array hash as input to a sign up screen.

Here’s a snippet of how to use JSON in this particular scenario

require “json”

my_data = "{'user':{'FirstName':'User', 'LastName':'Sample', 'Gender':'Female', 'BirthDate':'01/01/1990'}}"

##method to parse user data

def getNewUserData

@new_user = JSON.parse my_data

{

:firstName => new_user['user']['FirstName'],

:lastName => new_user['user']['LastName'],

:gender => new_user['user']['Gender'],

:birthDate => new_user['user']['BirthDate']

}

end

##method to populate the sign up screen

def fillOutSignUpScreen

step %Q[I enter "#{@new_user[:firstName]}" to the "signup.firstname"]

step %Q[I enter "#{@new_user[:lastName]}" to the "signup.lastname"]

step %Q[I enter "#{@new_user[:gender]}" to the "signup.gender"]

step %Q[I enter "#{@new_user[:birthDate]}" to the "signup.birthdate"]

end

For more functions and complete library you may refer to http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/json/rdoc/JSON.html

Ruby: Using URI and HTTPClient

HTTPClient provides API library for user to access web resource using HTTP

This would be helpful if you need to access a different web URL other than your base URL that you used in your automation and validate the content of the page.

Here’s a snippet of how to use HTTPClient in this particular scenario

require “httpclient”

my_url = “http://CheckThisOut:8080”

##method to access my_url using URI

def accessPage

begin

uri_parsed = URI.parse(my_url)

client = HTTPClient.new()

client.ssl_config.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

client.no_proxy = uri_parsed.host

uri = my_url

#invoke url to take the page content

puts “Accessing: #{uri}”

resp = client.get uri, :header => {’Accept’ =>‘application/json’}

rescue

puts(“Error encountered: #{$!.inspect}”)

end

end

puts "response: status = #{resp.status}"

puts "response: body = #{resp.body}"

fail "bad response #{resp.status} #{resp.reason}" unless resp.status == HTTP::Status::OK

page_content = resp.body

return page_content

end

For more functions and complete library you may refer to http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/httpclient/2.1.5.2/HTTPClient