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Installation

If you use Codeception installed using composer, install this module with the following command:

composer require --dev codeception/module-rest

Alternatively, you can enable REST module in suite configuration file and run

codecept init upgrade4

This module was bundled with Codeception 2 and 3, but since version 4 it is necessary to install it separately.
Some modules are bundled with PHAR files.
Warning. Using PHAR file and composer in the same project can cause unexpected errors.

Description

Module for testing REST WebService.

This module requires either PhpBrowser or a framework module (e.g. Symfony, Laravel) to send the actual HTTP request.

Configuration

url optional - the url of api
shortDebugResponse optional - number of chars to limit the API response length

Example

modules:
   enabled:
       - REST:
           depends: PhpBrowser
           url: 'https://example.com/api/v1/'
           shortDebugResponse: 300 # only the first 300 characters of the response

In case you need to configure low-level HTTP headers, that’s done on the PhpBrowser level like so:

modules:
   enabled:
       - REST:
           depends: PhpBrowser
           url: &url 'https://example.com/api/v1/'
   config:
       PhpBrowser:
           url: *url
           headers:
               Content-Type: application/json

JSONPath

JSONPath is the equivalent to XPath, for querying JSON data structures. Here’s an Online JSONPath Expressions Tester

Public Properties

headers - array of headers going to be sent.
params - array of sent data
response - last response (string)

Parts

Json - actions for validating Json responses (no Xml responses)
Xml - actions for validating XML responses (no Json responses)

Conflicts

Conflicts with SOAP module

Actions

amAWSAuthenticated

Allows to send REST request using AWS Authorization

Only works with PhpBrowser Example Config:

yml
modules:
     enabled:
         - REST:
             aws:
                 key: accessKey
                 secret: accessSecret
                 service: awsService
                 region: awsRegion

Code:

<?php
$I->amAWSAuthenticated();

@throws ConfigurationException

amBearerAuthenticated

Adds Bearer authentication via access token.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

amDigestAuthenticated

Adds Digest authentication via username/password.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

amHttpAuthenticated

Adds HTTP authentication via username/password.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

amNTLMAuthenticated

Adds NTLM authentication via username/password. Requires client to be Guzzle >=6.3.0 Out of scope for functional modules.

Example:

<?php
$I->amNTLMAuthenticated('jon_snow', 'targaryen');

@throws ModuleException

[Part] json
[Part] xml

deleteHeader

Deletes a HTTP header (that was originally added by haveHttpHeader()), so that subsequent requests will not send it anymore.

Example:

<?php
$I->haveHttpHeader('X-Requested-With', 'Codeception');
$I->sendGet('test-headers.php');
// ...
$I->deleteHeader('X-Requested-With');
$I->sendPost('some-other-page.php');

param string $name the name of the header to delete.
[Part] json
[Part] xml

dontSeeBinaryResponseEquals

Checks if the hash of a binary response is not the same as provided.

<?php
$I->dontSeeBinaryResponseEquals("8c90748342f19b195b9c6b4eff742ded");

Opposite to seeBinaryResponseEquals

param string $hash the hashed data response expected
param string $algo the hash algorithm to use. Default md5.
[Part] json
[Part] xml

dontSeeHttpHeader

Checks over the given HTTP header and (optionally) its value, asserting that are not there

param $value
[Part] json
[Part] xml

dontSeeResponseCodeIs

Checks that response code is not equal to provided value.

<?php
$I->dontSeeResponseCodeIs(200);

// preferred to use \Codeception\Util\HttpCode
$I->dontSeeResponseCodeIs(\Codeception\Util\HttpCode::OK);

[Part] json
[Part] xml

dontSeeResponseContains

Checks whether last response do not contain text.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

dontSeeResponseContainsJson

Opposite to seeResponseContainsJson

[Part] json

dontSeeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath

See #jsonpath for general info on JSONPath. Opposite to seeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath()

[Part] json

dontSeeResponseJsonMatchesXpath

Opposite to seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath

[Part] json

dontSeeResponseJsonXpathEvaluatesTo

Opposite to seeResponseJsonXpathEvaluatesTo

[Part] json

dontSeeResponseMatchesJsonType

Opposite to seeResponseMatchesJsonType.

[Part] json
param array $jsonType JsonType structure @see seeResponseMatchesJsonType

dontSeeXmlResponseEquals

Checks XML response does not equal to provided XML. Comparison is done by canonicalizing both xml`s.

Parameter can be passed either as XmlBuilder, DOMDocument, DOMNode, XML string, or array (if no attributes).

param mixed $xml
[Part] xml

dontSeeXmlResponseIncludes

Checks XML response does not include provided XML. Comparison is done by canonicalizing both xml`s. Parameter can be passed either as XmlBuilder, DOMDocument, DOMNode, XML string, or array (if no attributes).

param mixed $xml
[Part] xml

dontSeeXmlResponseMatchesXpath

Checks whether XML response does not match XPath

<?php
$I->dontSeeXmlResponseMatchesXpath('//root/user[@id=1]');

[Part] xml

grabAttributeFromXmlElement

Finds and returns attribute of element. Element is matched by either CSS or XPath

[Part] xml

grabDataFromResponseByJsonPath

See #jsonpath for general info on JSONPath. Even for a single value an array is returned. Example:

<?php
// match the first `user.id` in json
$firstUserId = $I->grabDataFromResponseByJsonPath('$..users[0].id');
$I->sendPut('/user', array('id' => $firstUserId[0], 'name' => 'davert'));

return array Array of matching items @throws Exception
[Part] json

grabHttpHeader

Returns the value of the specified header name

param bool $first Whether to return the first value or all header values
return string|array The first header value if $first is true, an array of values otherwise
[Part] json
[Part] xml

grabResponse

Returns current response so that it can be used in next scenario steps.

Example:

<?php
$user_id = $I->grabResponse();
$I->sendPut('/user', array('id' => $user_id, 'name' => 'davert'));

[Part] json
[Part] xml

grabTextContentFromXmlElement

Finds and returns text contents of element. Element is matched by either CSS or XPath

param mixed $cssOrXPath
[Part] xml

haveHttpHeader

Sets a HTTP header to be used for all subsequent requests. Use deleteHeader to unset it.

<?php
$I->haveHttpHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
// all next requests will contain this header

[Part] json
[Part] xml

haveServerParameter

Sets SERVER parameter valid for all next requests.

$I->haveServerParameter('name', 'value');

seeBinaryResponseEquals

Checks if the hash of a binary response is exactly the same as provided. Parameter can be passed as any hash string supported by hash(), with an optional second parameter to specify the hash type, which defaults to sha1.

Example: Using sha1 hash key

<?php
$I->seeBinaryResponseEquals("df589122eac0f6a7bd8795436e692e3675cadc3b");

Example: Using sha1 for a file contents

<?php
$fileData = file_get_contents("test_file.jpg");
$I->seeBinaryResponseEquals(md5($fileData));

Example: Using sha256 hash

<?php
$fileData = '/9j/2wBDAAMCAgICAgMCAgIDAwMDBAYEBAQEBAgGBgUGCQgKCgkICQkKDA8MCgsOCwkJDRENDg8QEBEQCgwSExIQEw8QEBD/yQALCAABAAEBAREA/8wABgAQEAX/2gAIAQEAAD8A0s8g/9k='; // very small jpeg
$I->seeBinaryResponseEquals(hash("sha256", base64_decode($fileData)), 'sha256');

param string $hash the hashed data response expected
param string $algo the hash algorithm to use. Default sha1.
[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeHttpHeader

Checks over the given HTTP header and (optionally) its value, asserting that are there

param $value
[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeHttpHeaderOnce

Checks that http response header is received only once. HTTP RFC2616 allows multiple response headers with the same name. You can check that you didn’t accidentally sent the same header twice.

<?php
$I->seeHttpHeaderOnce('Cache-Control');

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseCodeIs

Checks response code equals to provided value.

<?php
$I->seeResponseCodeIs(200);

// preferred to use \Codeception\Util\HttpCode
$I->seeResponseCodeIs(\Codeception\Util\HttpCode::OK);

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseCodeIsClientError

Checks that the response code is 4xx

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseCodeIsRedirection

Checks that the response code 3xx

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseCodeIsServerError

Checks that the response code is 5xx

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseCodeIsSuccessful

Checks that the response code is 2xx

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseContains

Checks whether the last response contains text.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseContainsJson

Checks whether the last JSON response contains provided array. The response is converted to array with json_decode($response, true) Thus, JSON is represented by associative array. This method matches that response array contains provided array.

Examples:

<?php
// response: {name: john, email: [email protected]}
$I->seeResponseContainsJson(array('name' => 'john'));

// response {user: john, profile: { email: [email protected] }}
$I->seeResponseContainsJson(array('email' => '[email protected]'));

This method recursively checks if one array can be found inside of another.

[Part] json

seeResponseEquals

Checks if response is exactly the same as provided.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

seeResponseIsJson

Checks whether last response was valid JSON. This is done with json_last_error function.

[Part] json

seeResponseIsValidOnJsonSchema

Checks whether last response matches the supplied json schema (https://json-schema.org/) Supply schema as relative file path in your project directory or an absolute path

[Part] json @see codecept_absolute_path()

seeResponseIsValidOnJsonSchemaString

Checks whether last response matches the supplied json schema (https://json-schema.org/) Supply schema as json string.

Examples:

<?php
// response: {"name": "john", "age": 20}
$I->seeResponseIsValidOnJsonSchemaString('{"type": "object"}');

// response {"name": "john", "age": 20}
$schema = [
 "properties" => [
     "age" => [
         "type" => "integer",
         "minimum" => 18
     ]
 ]
];
$I->seeResponseIsValidOnJsonSchemaString(json_encode($schema));

[Part] json

seeResponseIsXml

Checks whether last response was valid XML. This is done with libxml_get_last_error function.

[Part] xml

seeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath

See #jsonpath for general info on JSONPath. Checks if JSON structure in response matches JSONPath.

  { "store": {
      "book": [
        { "category": "reference",
          "author": "Nigel Rees",
          "title": "Sayings of the Century",
          "price": 8.95
        },
        { "category": "fiction",
          "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
          "title": "Sword of Honour",
          "price": 12.99
        }
   ],
      "bicycle": {
        "color": "red",
        "price": 19.95
      }
    }
  }

<?php
// at least one book in store has author
$I->seeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath('$.store.book[*].author');
// first book in store has author
$I->seeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath('$.store.book[0].author');
// at least one item in store has price
$I->seeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath('$.store..price');

[Part] json

seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath

Checks if json structure in response matches the xpath provided. JSON is not supposed to be checked against XPath, yet it can be converted to xml and used with XPath. This assertion allows you to check the structure of response json. *

  { "store": {
      "book": [
        { "category": "reference",
          "author": "Nigel Rees",
          "title": "Sayings of the Century",
          "price": 8.95
        },
        { "category": "fiction",
          "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
          "title": "Sword of Honour",
          "price": 12.99
        }
   ],
      "bicycle": {
        "color": "red",
        "price": 19.95
      }
    }
  }

<?php
// at least one book in store has author
$I->seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath('//store/book/author');
// first book in store has author
$I->seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath('//store/book[1]/author');
// at least one item in store has price
$I->seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath('/store//price');

[Part] json

seeResponseJsonXpathEvaluatesTo

Checks if applying xpath to json structure in response matches the expected result. JSON is not supposed to be checked against XPath, yet it can be converted to xml and used with XPath. This assertion allows you to check the structure of response json. *

  { "store": {
      "book": [
        { "category": "reference",
          "author": "Nigel Rees",
          "title": "Sayings of the Century",
          "price": 8.95
        },
        { "category": "fiction",
          "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
          "title": "Sword of Honour",
          "price": 12.99
        }
   ],
      "bicycle": {
        "color": "red",
        "price": 19.95
      }
    }
  }

<?php
// at least one book in store has author
$I->seeResponseJsonXpathEvaluatesTo('count(//store/book/author) > 0', true);
// count the number of books written by given author is 5
$I->seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath("//author[text() = 'Nigel Rees']", 1.0);

[Part] json

seeResponseMatchesJsonType

Checks that JSON matches provided types. In case you don’t know the actual values of JSON data returned you can match them by type. It starts the check with a root element. If JSON data is an array it will check all elements of it. You can specify the path in the json which should be checked with JsonPath

Basic example:

<?php
// {'user_id': 1, 'name': 'davert', 'is_active': false}
$I->seeResponseMatchesJsonType([
     'user_id' => 'integer',
     'name' => 'string|null',
     'is_active' => 'boolean'
]);

// narrow down matching with JsonPath:
// {"users": [{ "name": "davert"}, {"id": 1}]}
$I->seeResponseMatchesJsonType(['name' => 'string'], '$.users[0]');

You can check if the record contains fields with the data types you expect. The list of possible data types:

string
integer
float
array (json object is array as well)
boolean
null

You can also use nested data type structures, and define multiple types for the same field:

<?php
// {'user_id': 1, 'name': 'davert', 'company': {'name': 'Codegyre'}}
$I->seeResponseMatchesJsonType([
     'user_id' => 'integer|string', // multiple types
     'company' => ['name' => 'string']
]);

You can also apply filters to check values. Filter can be applied with a : char after the type declaration, or after another filter if you need more than one.

Here is the list of possible filters:

integer:>{val} - checks that integer is greater than {val} (works with float and string types too).
integer:<{val} - checks that integer is lower than {val} (works with float and string types too).
string:url - checks that value is valid url.
string:date - checks that value is date in JavaScript format: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2014/Jan/06/JavaScript-JSON-Date-Parsing-and-real-Dates
string:email - checks that value is a valid email according to https://emailregex.com/
string:regex({val}) - checks that string matches a regex provided with {val}

This is how filters can be used:

<?php
// {'user_id': 1, 'email' => '[email protected]'}
$I->seeResponseMatchesJsonType([
     'user_id' => 'string:>0:<1000', // multiple filters can be used
     'email' => 'string:regex(~\@~)' // we just check that @ char is included
]);

// {'user_id': '1'}
$I->seeResponseMatchesJsonType([
     'user_id' => 'string:>0', // works with strings as well
]);

You can also add custom filters by using {@link JsonType::addCustomFilter()}. See JsonType reference.

[Part] json @see JsonType

seeXmlResponseEquals

Checks XML response equals provided XML. Comparison is done by canonicalizing both xml`s.

Parameters can be passed either as DOMDocument, DOMNode, XML string, or array (if no attributes).

param mixed $xml
[Part] xml

seeXmlResponseIncludes

Checks XML response includes provided XML. Comparison is done by canonicalizing both xml`s. Parameter can be passed either as XmlBuilder, DOMDocument, DOMNode, XML string, or array (if no attributes).

Example:

<?php
$I->seeXmlResponseIncludes("<result>1</result>");

param mixed $xml
[Part] xml

seeXmlResponseMatchesXpath

Checks whether XML response matches XPath

<?php
$I->seeXmlResponseMatchesXpath('//root/user[@id=1]');

[Part] xml

send

Sends a HTTP request.

param array|string|JsonSerializable $params
[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendDelete

Sends DELETE request to given uri.

<?php
$I->sendDelete('/message/1');

[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendGet

Sends a GET request to given uri.

<?php
$response = $I->sendGet('/users');

// send get with query params
$I->sendGet('/orders', ['id' => 1])

[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendHead

Sends a HEAD request to given uri.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendLink

Sends LINK request to given uri.

param array $linkEntries (entry is array with keys “uri” and “link-param”)

@link https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-19.6.2.4

@author [email protected]

[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendOptions

Sends an OPTIONS request to given uri.

[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendPatch

Sends PATCH request to given uri.

<?php
$response = $I->sendPatch('/message/1', ['subject' => 'Read this!']);

param array|string|JsonSerializable $params
[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendPost

Sends a POST request to given uri. Parameters and files can be provided separately.

Example:

<?php
//simple POST call
$response = $I->sendPost('/message', ['subject' => 'Read this!', 'to' => '[email protected]']);
//simple upload method
$I->sendPost('/message/24', ['inline' => 0], ['attachmentFile' => codecept_data_dir('sample_file.pdf')]);
//uploading a file with a custom name and mime-type. This is also useful to simulate upload errors.
$I->sendPost('/message/24', ['inline' => 0], [
    'attachmentFile' => [
         'name' => 'document.pdf',
         'type' => 'application/pdf',
         'error' => UPLOAD_ERR_OK,
         'size' => filesize(codecept_data_dir('sample_file.pdf')),
         'tmp_name' => codecept_data_dir('sample_file.pdf')
    ]
]);
// If your field names contain square brackets (e.g. `<input type="text" name="form[task]">`),
// PHP parses them into an array. In this case you need to pass the fields like this:
$I->sendPost('/add-task', ['form' => [
    'task' => 'lorem ipsum',
    'category' => 'miscellaneous',
]]);

param array|string|JsonSerializable $params
param array $files A list of filenames or “mocks” of $_FILES (each entry being an array with the following keys: name, type, error, size, tmp_name (pointing to the real file path). Each key works as the “name” attribute of a file input field.

@see https://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.post-method.php @see codecept_data_dir()

[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendPut

Sends PUT request to given uri.

<?php
$response = $I->sendPut('/message/1', ['subject' => 'Read this!']);

param array|string|JsonSerializable $params
[Part] json
[Part] xml

sendUnlink

Sends UNLINK request to given uri.

param array $linkEntries (entry is array with keys “uri” and “link-param”) @link https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-19.6.2.4 @author [email protected]
[Part] json
[Part] xml

setServerParameters

Sets SERVER parameters valid for all next requests. this will remove old ones.

$I->setServerParameters([]);

startFollowingRedirects

Enables automatic redirects to be followed by the client

<?php
$I->startFollowingRedirects();

[Part] xml
[Part] json

stopFollowingRedirects

Prevents automatic redirects to be followed by the client

<?php
$I->stopFollowingRedirects();

[Part] xml
[Part] json

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Description

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Example

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Public Properties

Parts

Conflicts

Actions

amAWSAuthenticated

amBearerAuthenticated

amDigestAuthenticated

amHttpAuthenticated

amNTLMAuthenticated

deleteHeader

dontSeeBinaryResponseEquals

dontSeeHttpHeader

dontSeeResponseCodeIs

dontSeeResponseContains

dontSeeResponseContainsJson

dontSeeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath

dontSeeResponseJsonMatchesXpath

dontSeeResponseJsonXpathEvaluatesTo

dontSeeResponseMatchesJsonType

dontSeeXmlResponseEquals

dontSeeXmlResponseIncludes

dontSeeXmlResponseMatchesXpath

grabAttributeFromXmlElement

grabDataFromResponseByJsonPath

grabHttpHeader

grabResponse

grabTextContentFromXmlElement

haveHttpHeader

haveServerParameter

seeBinaryResponseEquals

seeHttpHeader

seeHttpHeaderOnce

seeResponseCodeIs

seeResponseCodeIsClientError

seeResponseCodeIsRedirection

seeResponseCodeIsServerError

seeResponseCodeIsSuccessful

seeResponseContains

seeResponseContainsJson

seeResponseEquals

seeResponseIsJson

seeResponseIsValidOnJsonSchema

seeResponseIsValidOnJsonSchemaString

seeResponseIsXml

seeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath

seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath

seeResponseJsonXpathEvaluatesTo

seeResponseMatchesJsonType

seeXmlResponseEquals

seeXmlResponseIncludes

seeXmlResponseMatchesXpath

send

sendDelete

sendGet

sendHead

sendLink

sendOptions

sendPatch

sendPost

sendPut

sendUnlink

setServerParameters

startFollowingRedirects

stopFollowingRedirects

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