How to fetch complete Json string from Retrieve method when no root element is provided

[k070080]

Suppose we have response json like below, we want to get complete json to deserialize into dictionary(collection) inorder to verify from database but .Retrieve(x=> x) is crashing.

{
"customerId": "12345",
"title": "GitHub",
"Address": {
"City": "NYC",
"Zip": "11223344"
},
"alias": {
"type": "ContactNumber",
"value": "12345678910"
},
"Membership": "Individual"
}

[amar-1314]

Can someone please look into it?

[ViniGasp]

I have the same problem, I need the response body to perform validations with the database.
I'm working on a big project and this is essential for validations.

Thanks.

[numo16]

The lack of strongly typed Retrieve can be gotten around with something like JSON.net to serialize/deserialize to your desired type. I use an extension method like the following to wrap this functionality:

public static T RetrieveBody<T>(this ResponseContext context)
{
    var json = (string)context.Retrieve(x => JsonConvert.SerializeObject(x));
    return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json);
}

Which then allows you to use it like this:

var response = new RestAssured()
  .Given()
    .Name("JsonIP Test Suite")
    .Header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .Header("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate")
  .When()
    .Get("http://jsonip.com")
  .Then()
    .RetrieveBody<Dictionary<string,string>>();

Assert.Equal(response["ip"], "2605:6000:f705:ab00:78e3:1959:78d4:bd76");

where Dictionary<string, string> is whatever type you want to convert the response to.