JSONArray of JSONObjects about jsonunit

[lukas-krecan-gdc]

Can you please post here a code snippet of your test so I know how to reproduce it?

[LomaPL]

I can only provide a simplified example as the API that returns the response is company internal.

We expect the following JSON:

{
    "response":[
        {
            "empolyees":[
                {
                    "firstName":"Joe",
                    "lastName":"Doe",
                    "dob":"1987-03-21"
                },
                {
                    "firstName":"Jason",
                    "lastName":"Kowalski",
                    "dob":"1986-02-12",
                },
                {
                    "firstName":"Kate",
                    "lastName":"Smith",
                    "dob":"1985-01-11",
                }
            ],
            "attributes":null,
            "id":123
        }

Server returns employees in different order and now we simply assert whether the expected JSON is equal to actual.

    @Test
    public void testJSON() {

        final String actual = "{\"response\":[{\"attributes\":null,\"empolyees\":[{\"dob\":\"1987-03-21\",\"firstName\":\"Joe\",\"lastName\":\"Doe\"},{\"dob\":\"1986-02-12\",\"firstName\":\"Jason\",\"lastName\":\"Kowalski\"},{\"dob\":\"1985-01-11\",\"firstName\":\"Kate\",\"lastName\":\"Smith\"}],\"id\":123}]}";
        final String expected = "{\"response\":[{\"attributes\":null,\"empolyees\":[{\"dob\":\"1985-01-11\",\"firstName\":\"Kate\",\"lastName\":\"Smith\"},{\"dob\":\"1986-02-12\",\"firstName\":\"Jason\",\"lastName\":\"Kowalski\"},{\"dob\":\"1987-03-21\",\"firstName\":\"Joe\",\"lastName\":\"Doe\"}],\"id\":123}]}";

        assertThatJson(actual).isEqualTo(expected).when(Option.IGNORING_ARRAY_ORDER);
    }

[lukas-krecan]

If you specify when before the condition it works

@Test
public void testArrayShouldMatchRegardlessOfOrder() {

    final String actual = "{\"response\":[{\"attributes\":null,\"empolyees\":[{\"dob\":\"1987-03-21\",\"firstName\":\"Joe\",\"lastName\":\"Doe\"},{\"dob\":\"1986-02-12\",\"firstName\":\"Jason\",\"lastName\":\"Kowalski\"},{\"dob\":\"1985-01-11\",\"firstName\":\"Kate\",\"lastName\":\"Smith\"}],\"id\":123}]}";
    final String expected = "{\"response\":[{\"attributes\":null,\"empolyees\":[{\"dob\":\"1985-01-11\",\"firstName\":\"Kate\",\"lastName\":\"Smith\"},{\"dob\":\"1986-02-12\",\"firstName\":\"Jason\",\"lastName\":\"Kowalski\"},{\"dob\":\"1987-03-21\",\"firstName\":\"Joe\",\"lastName\":\"Doe\"}],\"id\":123}]}";

    assertThatJson(actual).when(Option.IGNORING_ARRAY_ORDER).isEqualTo(expected);
}

I admit that it's not intuitive and the API should not allow the incorrect combination. If you think about it, in Java isEqualMethod can not know that there will be another method call in the chain so it has to do the comparison at once. I will try to stress it in the documentation.