REST Assured 2.8.0

Highlights

• Added support for measuring response time. For example:

  long timeInMs = get("/lotto").time()

  or using a specific time unit:

  long timeInSeconds = get("/lotto").timeIn(SECONDS);

  where SECONDS is just a standard TimeUnit. You can also validate it using the validation DSL:

  when().
          get("/lotto").
  then().
          time(lessThan(2000L)); // Milliseconds

  or

  when().
          get("/lotto").
  then().
          time(lessThan(2L), SECONDS);

  Please note that response time measurement should be performed when the JVM is hot! (i.e. running a response time measurement when only running a single test will yield erroneous results). This is also implemented in the Spring MockMvc module.

• Lot’s of improvements to filters.

  • It’s now possible to change the request path from a filter, use the FilterableRequestSpecification#path method.
  • Added ability to remove parameters from the FilterableRequestSpecification. Use the remove methods such as removeQueryParam.
  • Filters can add and remove path parameters as well as getting undefined path parameter placeholders etc (see javadoc for the methods in com.jayway.restassured.specification.FilterableRequestSpecification)

• Improvements to path parameters. You can now combine unnamed and name path parameters in the same request. Also the error messages are improved when unnamed path parameters are null.

Non-backward compatible changes

• FilterableRequestSpecification#getPathParams now returns now returns both unnamed and named path parameters (before only named parameters were returned).

Deprecations

• FilterContext#getRequestMethod, use FilterableRequestSpecification#getMethod instead.
• FilterContext#getRequestPath, use FilterableRequestSpecification#getUserDefinedPath instead.
• FilterContext#getRequestURI, use FilterableRequestSpecification#getURI instead.
• FilterContext#getOriginalRequestPath, use FilterableRequestSpecification#getUserDefinedPath instead.
• FilterableRequestSpecification#getRequestContentType, use FilterableRequestSpecification#getContentType instead.

Minor changes

See change log for more details.