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Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

jlorenzen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:14:41 -0000

The groovyx files are a part of the HTTPBuilder library I referenced in my post.

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

jlorenzen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:13:48 -0000

Looks like you have json dates set to javascript. What I think that means is that only javascript clients can consume that json. Disable that feature in your Config.groovy file and it should work.

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

spasco — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:52:25 -0000

Where are the groovyx libraries? They're not part of the groovy download.

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

Wendy Xi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:38:22 -0000

Thanks for the example. I would like to see how you pass params and how you get a java object.

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

James Lorenzen — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:53:39 -0000

See this idea plugin that formats JSON.
http://dontmindthelanguage....

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

Andrej — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:15:47 -0000

Seems the groovyx.net....json class uses a different form of json than grails itself. The json interpreter used by the test doesn't accept the json generated by my grails controller. I get the following error:

Unquotted string 'new Date(1200092400000)'

net.sf.json.JSONException: Unquotted string 'new Date(1200092400000)'

at net.sf.json.util.JSONTokener.nextValue(JSONTokener.java:445)

at net.sf.json.JSONObject._fromJSONTokener(JSONObject.java:1128)

at net.sf.json.JSONObject._fromString(JSONObject.java:1317)

at net.sf.json.JSONObject.fromObject(JSONObject.java:185)

at net.sf.json.JSONSerializer.toJSON(JSONSerializer.java:139)

at net.sf.json.JSONSerializer.toJSON(JSONSerializer.java:103)

at net.sf.json.groovy.JsonSlurper.parseText(JsonSlurper.java:78)

at groovyx.net.http.ParserRegistry.parseJSON(ParserRegistry.java:185)

Here's the json generated by the controller:

{"id":18,"class":"Kandidaat","aanbiedingenPerPost":false,"achternaam":"Willemsen","dossierNummer":"10","etage":"3","huisletter":"a","huisnummer":"12","inschrijfDatum":new Date(1200092400000),"kamerbehoefte":"4","postcode":"1234 ab","reacties":[],"redenAfvoer":null,"soort":"Geindiceerde","straatnaam":"Nieuwe stationsstraat","voorletters":"AB","voorvoegsel":"","woningNetNummer":"10","woonplaats":"Amsterdam"}

Any idea how to fix this?

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

James Lorenzen — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:13:52 -0000

I know Kit. I just like to give you a hard time.

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

kitplummer — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:01:13 -0000

Cool James. I'm not really that mad either. ;)

The cool thing about your approach here is that it is super simple to add in non-happy-path testing too. For example you want to ensure that a PUT to an invalid "id" returns the appropriate error - do so is quick and painless.