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Writing API Tests with Karate

You're reading from   Writing API Tests with Karate Enhance your API testing for improved security and performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638260
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Karate Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Karate’s Core Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting up Your Karate Project 4. Chapter 3: Writing Basic Karate Tests 5. Chapter 4: Running Karate Tests 6. Chapter 5: Reporting and Logging 7. Part 2:Advanced Karate Functionalities
8. Chapter 6: More Advanced Karate Features 9. Chapter 7: Customizing and Optimizing Karate Tests 10. Chapter 8: Karate in Docker and CI/CD pipelines 11. Chapter 9: Karate UI for Browser Testing 12. Chapter 10: Performance Testing with Karate Gatling 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making requests with payloads

So far, we have only worked with the responses. But what about making requests that include payloads such as POST, PUT, and PATCH? Let’s look at another part of the JSONPlaceholder API that allows us to do just that.

A non-persistent mock API

It is important to know that the JSONPlaceholder API is non-persistent. That means that its underlying data is not changed regardless of our requests to create or modify data. It merely simulates that new data is created by delivering the appropriate response as a real API would. This makes it perfect for testing.

In the user guide, we can see that the /posts endpoint supports the POST operation to create a new post for a specific user.

According to the documentation, a request body to send to the endpoint should look like this:

{
    title: 'foo',
    body: 'bar',
    userId: 1,
}

The return value is supposed...

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