The pain of JSON API testing

jeffkreeftmeijer.com

I'm not really sure where the idea that JSON APIs are hard to test came from?

They're actually really simple to test because the returned data is in a machine-readable format - JSON. Simply parse the JSON into a data structure that your language understands (hash, array?), and make assertions about the content. The end.

I recommend using Hashie::Mash[1] and turn all those hashes into objects, just like those you get when you parse the json in Javascript. This is how ruby's twitter[2] client handles json data.

[1] https://github.com/intridea/hashie

[2] http://twitter.rubyforge.org/

Good idea, Daniel. Hashr is a tip too: https://github.com/svenfuchs/hashr :)

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