Rest-assured JsonPath working in JUnit Test but not when deployed in application (Weblogic)

Question

A little background first. I have an application that is deployed in Weblogic. It receives a Json response from a Service. I'm trying to use JsonPath to navigate the tree and I'm having an unusual issue.

I'm using Maven to build/deploy the application. Dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
  <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
  <version>1.8.1</version>
</dependency>

After getting it running with the full response in Junit and realizing that it wasn't working in the application when deployed, I made it simpler and hard coded a very small subset of the data.

{
    "ChangeStatus": {
        "Code": {
            "value": "1002"
        },
        "Description": {
            "value": "Matched more then 10 records"
        }
    }
}

Here's what I'm looking at right now...

String miniJson = "{\"ChangeStatus\":{\"Code\":{\"value\":\"1002\"},\"Description\":{\"value\":\"Matched more then 10 records\"}}}";
JsonPath miniJsonPath = new JsonPath(miniJson);
String statusCode = miniJsonPath.getString("ChangeStatus.Code.value");

In JUnit, this code works and I can assert 1002 successfully. In the application after pushing to weblogic, this exact code snippet does not work. It throws a NoSuchMethodError.

Any ideas would be welcome. FYI, we are on Weblogic 10.3.6

Thanks in advance!

And you've verified your json-path-1.8.1.jar is part of your deployed app? What does the stack trace look like? — Display Name is missing, Aug 13 '13 at 20:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '13 at 04:59

I am not an expert in Weblogic, but as an alternative you can include

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.0-rc1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.0-rc1</version>
    </dependency>

and create a class ChangeStatus with 2 members Code and Description and then you can deserialize the JSON using:

    `new ObjectMapper().readValue(miniJson, ChangeStatus.class)`

Hope it hepls.

Thanks for your feedback. I'm actually using that very code in other places in the application. The piece I'm working with right now is far more complicated than what I displayed. JsonPath is the most useful tool I've found to this point to handle the overly-nested nature of the Json I'm dealing with. I did find the solution and will post it. — Shino, Aug 20 '13 at 00:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '13 at 00:52

What I discovered is that jsonpath depends upon antlr. Weblogic also includes this package, but I believe it is an older version.

I fixed the problem by telling Weblogic to use the classes included in the app. weblogic.xml

<wls:container-descriptor>
    <wls:prefer-web-inf-classes>true</wls:prefer-web-inf-classes>
</wls:container-descriptor>

Rest-assured JsonPath working in JUnit Test but not when deployed in application (Weblogic)

2 Answers2