I use the Ruby language, Cucumber framework, and the HttParty gem.
I tried some ways to give expect in response Body to hit something that returns in it. My last attempt to hit user_id = 11111111 was:
expect(@response.body["user_id"]).to eq 11111111
That returns the error:
expected: 11111111
got: "user_id"
That is, my logic is wrong, I tried n forms where the error message was different.
Come on.
To get the response of a call you can do the following:
def seu_metodo
response = HTTParty.post(url,
headers: headers,
body:{seu body},
user_id = response.parsed_response['user_id']
end
If you want to make an assert you need to extract the value and not the field, it might be that swapping .body by .parsed_response will work:)
I would recommend not doing API tests using cucumber and yes Rspec the cucumber you create a complexity of having an updated .feature and a step_definitions too, off if it does not have a class with API's abstractions.
I would go by the way of rspec + httparty the tests are well written and you take away the complexity of maintenance