Support to read the bodyPatterns content from a file. about wiremock

[tomakehurst]

Could you give me some more detail as to why you need this?

I've got some ideas about how to improve body specifications that may help you if implemented, so I'd be interested to know what pain points you're hitting.

Thanks,
Tom

[martins1930]

Hi,

I think that is very usefull have a posibility to configure the bodyPatterns in a external file when you have a large body in XML.

For example if i have a mapping like this:

{
    "request": {
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "/product",
        "bodyPatterns": [
            { "matches": "<product><name>Ball</name><manufacturer>A</manufacturer><price>.*</price><vendors_assigned><vendor>1</vendor><vendor>2</vendor><vendor>3</vendor></vendors_assigned></product>" }
        ]
    },
    "response": {
            "status": 200,
            "bodyFileName": "path/to/ballResponse.xml"
    }
}

I think that is better to configure a mapping in this way:

{
    "request": {
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "/product",
        "bodyPatterns": [
            { "matchesFileName": "path/to/ballRequest.xml" }
        ]
    },
    "response": {
            "status": 200,
            "bodyFileName": "path/to/ballResponse.xml"
    }
}

where the ballRequest.xml have the content of the first mapping.

Thanks and greetings,
Martin.

[tomakehurst]

OK...I have mixed feelings about this idea.

My personal view is that it's desirable not to make your stub specs any more specific than necessary as this tends to make your tests brittle.

However, I realise that regexes are a bit of a blunt instrument in this context, so I've been thinking for a while about adding support for body matching on JSONPath and XPath.

Something like:

{
    "request": {
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "/product",
        "bodyPatterns": [
            { "matchesXPath": "/product[name='ball']" },
            { "matchesXPath": "/product[manufacturer='A']" }
        ]
    },
    "response": {
            "status": 200,
            "bodyFileName": "path/to/ballResponse.xml"
    }
}

Do you think this would help?

[martins1930]

Hi,

I think that would be great !!

It is very helpful to have the option of XPath matching.

Thanks,
Martín.

[tomakehurst]

OK, I'll bump that up the to-do list in that case. Thanks for the feedback.