Print response body when statusCode assert fails with restassured

Question

I'm using Hamcrest to unit test a REST API.

When I send a request, I often check for a 200 status code like this :

public void myTest() {
    url = "route/to/my/rest/api/";
    secured().when().get(url).then().statusCode(200);
}

But when I get a wrong code status, I only get an assertion error. Is there a way to automatically dump the response body (which contains the error) when the status code doesn't match ?

The secured() method :

public RequestSpecification secured() {
    return given().header("Authorization", "Bearer " + getAuth());
}

Burnell

How can I adapt duplicated question's answer to my problem, as I'm using Restassured and not HttpURLConnection ? – Racquelracquet

One solution was to use secured().when().post(url).then().log().ifValidationFails(LogDetail.BODY).statusCode(200); source – Racquelracquet

I know some time has passed, but this question is in no way a duplicate of the linked one in the close reason. That's talking about a different library and doing a different thing. – Slake

Answer 1

As I mentioned in the comments I used the following

secured().when().post(url).then().log().ifValidationFails(LogDetail.BODY).statusCode(200);

You can find the source in the documentation

Burnell

works flawlessly! – Promiscuity

Answer 2

You can add a message to the assertion when test fails:

.statusCode(describedAs("The test fails because ...", is(200)))

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