jsonPath expression expected value but return list of values

Question

I want to check response "class_type" value has "REGION".

I test springboot API using mockMvc. the MockHttpServletResponse is like this.

Status = 200
Error message = null
Headers = {Content-Type=[application/json;charset=UTF-8]}
Content type = application/json;charset=UTF-8
Body = 
{"result":true,
"code":200,
"desc":"OK",
"data":{"total_count":15567,
        "items": ... 
}}

this is whole response object. Let's take a closer look, especially items.

 "items": [
      {
        "id": ...,
        "class_type": "REGION",
        "region_type": "MULTI_CITY",
        "class": "com.model.Region",
        "code": "AE-65GQ6",
        ...

      },
      {
        "id": "...",
        "class_type": "REGION",
        "region_type": "CITY",
        "class": "com.model.Region",
        "code": "AE-AAN",
        ...

      },

I tried using jsonPath.

@When("User wants to get list of regions, query is {string} page is {int} pageSize is {int}")
    public void userWantsToGetListOfRegionsQueryIsPageIsPageSizeIs(String query, int page, int pageSize) throws Exception {
        mockMvc().perform(get("/api/v1/regions" ))
                .andExpect(status().is2xxSuccessful())
                .andDo(print())
                .andExpect(jsonPath("$.data", is(notNullValue())))
                .andExpect(jsonPath("$.data.total_count").isNumber())
                .andExpect(jsonPath("$.data.items").isArray())
                .andExpect(jsonPath("$.data.items[*].class_type").value("REGION"));

        log.info("지역 목록");
    }

but

jsonPath("$.data.items[*].class_type").value("REGION")

return

java.lang.AssertionError: Got a list of values ["REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION","REGION"] instead of the expected single value REGION

I want to just check "$.data.items[*].class_type" has "REGION".

How can I change this?

Ioan M · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-23T04:54:25.470

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One option would be to check whether you have elements in your array which have the class_type equal to 'REGION':

public static final String REGION = "REGION";

mockMvc().perform(get("/api/v1/regions"))
.andExpect(jsonPath("$.data.items[?(@.class_type == '" + REGION + "')]").exists());

edited May 23 '19 at 04:54

answered May 22 '19 at 14:47

Ioan M

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I'm sorry for my ambiguous question. `items` is under data. – horoyoi o May 23 '19 at 01:23
@horoyoio can you please mark the answer accordingly if it solved your issue? Thx – Ioan M May 23 '19 at 10:59

jsonPath expression expected value but return list of values

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