json_spec Allow matching out-of-order arrays with .in_any

Allow matching out-of-order arrays with .in_any_order

Open rusterholz opened this issue 11 years ago • 9 comments

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My team needed a way to reliably, consistently test the JSON returned by our API, despite the facts that:

the controller that builds the JSON might retrieve models in any order (not deterministic), and
the client that will consume the JSON does not care about the order of models in the array.

For example, our API might respond with {"objects":[{"id":1,"some_attribute":"foo"},{"id":2,"some_attribute":"bar"}]} and that would be totally valid, but it is just as likely to respond with {"objects":[{"id":2,"some_attribute":"bar"},{"id":1,"some_attribute":"foo"}]} instead, and that should also be valid.

To allow the be_json_eql matcher to match out-of-order arrays, I've added the chain method .in_any_order. It works by sorting each array in lexical order according to the JSON string representation of the element.

You can also pass false to .in_any_order if you want to, which then behaves as if you had not chained .in_any_order at all (in case someone needs to determine indifference dynamically at runtime).

Examples are available in the modified be_json_eql_spec.rb file. I also added some tests to ensure that this feature should work correctly when combined with the other features of this matcher.

Oct 24 '14 02:10 rusterholz

Our team also need this functionality. :+1: to be merged

Jan 16 '15 14:01 aliismayilov

@aliismayilov It looks like the project managers haven't touched this repository in a few months... so, if you like, you can just use my fork for now!

Jan 20 '15 14:01 rusterholz

thanks @rusterholz !!

Jan 26 '15 10:01 aliismayilov

Bump!

I incorporated your feedback from above in my latest commit.

Jun 24 '15 19:06 rusterholz

This would be very useful