Monday 17 January 2011

RestFixture with namespaces support

I finally found some time to fix namespaces support on the RestFixture. Now it's possible to specify a namespace context where aliases are defined, and use such aliases in the XPaths that match the response body.

The namespace context is defined via the RestFixtureConfig fixture, defining the key restfixture.xml.namespace.context. The alias can then be used in any XPath subsequently.

The following two snippets are from the auto generated RestFixture documentation (section XPaths and namespaces). This shows the executed RestFixtureConfig with two aliases defined



whilst this shows the usage of one of the two aliases:



Note: the default namespace of a XML body must be explicitly defined as alias!

The latest release (v 1.1) of the Rest Fixture is downloadable from Google code here, and the source code is on GitHub here