How to send API request json body in cucumber

Question

Can anyone help me to send json request in one line ?? Example

{
  "benefitPlanIDs": [
    {
      "benefitPlanID": "011748abc",
      "benefitPlanPlatform": "abc"
    }
  ],
  "clientId": "abc",
  "dateOfService": "2017-01-01",
  "language": "English",
  "searchPhrase": "Digital",
  "session": "3nopmolkgjanbe2x2ddttlua"
}

I need to pass this as Given User hits "/end points" When User make Search in request

Examples: 
  | searchPhrase |
  | "out"        |

Right now I am passing as When User enters request details as following, , ,,, ,

Examples: 
  | BenefitPlanPlatform | BenefitPlanID     | ClientId | Session                    | DateOfService | Language  | searchPhrase |
  | "abc"              | "0117482abc" | "abc"  | "3nopmolkgjanbe2x2ddttlua" | "2017-01-01"  | "English" | "out"        |

Answer 1

Hi you can use multiline argument (docstring) for this:

https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/#doc-strings https://github.com/intuit/karate/blob/master/README.md#multi-line-expressions

Your step definition:

Here you pass the json between """ and """

Given a blog post named "Random" with Markdown body
"""
       { "benefitPlanIDs": [ { "benefitPlanID": "011748abc", "benefitPlanPlatform": "abc" } ], "clientId": "abc", "dateOfService": "2017-01-01", "language": "English", "searchPhrase": "Digital", "session": "3nopmolkgjanbe2x2ddttlua" }
"""

Your step definition :

the text is retrieved in the step definition as an argument,so if your step definition is like:

Given('the user is {string}', function(a){
  console.log(a) 
});

change it to:

Given('the user is {string}', function(a,b){
  console.log(a) 
  console.log(b) 
});

You will have the docstring as the last argument parameter 'b'

Answer 2

I'm assuming you are using Java in your testing framework. You have two ways of achieving it.

Option 1:

Try using Karate framework. If you use Java and want to do easy API testing.

Option 2:

Table is an object with fields named accordingly to table header. Basically you need to serialize them to json in a way that is suitable. You can use gson library for serialization.