SpringMVC/ mockMVC/ jsonpath compare list of strings

Question

I am currently writing some unit tests for a Spring MVC project. As the returned media type is JSON, I try to use jsonPath to check if the correct values are returned.

Answer 1

Here is what I ended up using:

.andExpect(jsonPath('$.data.roles').value(Matchers.hasSize(size)))

and

.andExpect(jsonPath('$.data.roles').value(Matchers.containsInAnyOrder("role1", "role2", "role3")))

Answer 2

1) Instead of

.andExpect(jsonPath("$.data.roles.length").value(correctRoles.size()));

try

.andExpect(jsonPath("$.data.roles.length()").value(correctRoles.size()));

or

.andExpect((jsonPath("$.data.roles", Matchers.hasSize(size))));

2) Instead of

for (AuthorityRole role : correctRoles) // doesn't work
  actions.andExpect(jsonPath("$.data.roles[?(@=='%s')]", role.toString()).exists());

try

actions.andExpect((jsonPath("$.data.roles", Matchers.containsInAnyOrder("role1", "role2", "role3"))));

Keep in mind that you have to add hamcrest-library.