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REST Assured Tutorial 13 – How to write API Response in a JSON File

Introduction

As a part of the End to End REST Assured Tutorial, in this post, We will learn to write API response to a JSON file in Rest Assured.

We may require to store API JSON responses in to JSON files for future reference as a test result. It may also required to pass stored JSON response as an input to another APIs. We can also store JSON response to extract values in future.

Required Dependecies

I have used Rest Assured and TestNG dependecies here. TestNG dependecies we requires to use “Files” class from Google Common dependecies. TestNG dependecy has transitive dependecies of Guava. So here TestNG can be used for both as Test framework and File handling utils.

Writing response into a JSON file

Rest Assured provides below methods to get a response as:-

  1. As byte array :- asByteArray()
  2. As input stream :- asInputStream()
  3. As string :- asString()

All the above methods output can be used to write into a JSON file.

Example program

Output

Refresh the project folder if you are using Eclipse. You should see three files as below:-

Open a file you should see it has stored response as below:-

You may be thinking about which way is more optimal if you want to write into a file. If you notice that we get a response as String or inputStream, we just need to convert them to Byte array before writing into a file. In the third way, we are directly getting Byte Array. Hence the third way is more optimal.

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Author: Amod Mahajan

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7 thoughts on “REST Assured Tutorial 13 – How to write API Response in a JSON File

  1. Just to mention: We need to have “json-schema-validator” dependency in order to access Files.write() method from “com.google.common.io” package. Otherwise, we need to add “guava” dependency explicitly.

    1. Yes, that is correct that to use “Files” from Google Common we need “guava” dependency. Since I have TestNG in my project pom.xml and “guava” is a transitive dependency of TestNG.

  2. This is the best thing about your tutorial, you tell concepts like books that too in a noticeably short and precise manner.

    Thanks, keep up the excellent work. Will use asByteArray always

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