How to check if object is present in array of objects?

[finlaydotb]

I am using https://hurl.dev/ for testing, and I have an endpoint that returns an array of objects.

Now I want to assert that this array of object contains a particular array.

How do I do this?

I have tried

jsonpath "$" includes '{"id":"123"}'

got the error

 69 | jsonpath "$" includes '{"id":"123"}'
    |                       ^ invalid predicate value

tried

jsonpath "$" includes "{\"id\":\"123\"}"

Got the error

 69 | jsonpath "$" includes "{\"id\":\"123\"}"
    |   actual:   [object]
    |   expected: includes string <{"id":"123"}>
    |

This seems to be closer to getting it, but looks like there is a mismatch in types? Also how do I avoid having to manually escape the json string myself.

To try and get the type correct and also not to manually escape the json, I tried

jsonpath "$" includes json```{"id":"123"}```

but got the error

 69 | jsonpath "$" includes json```{"id":"123"}```
    |                       ^ invalid predicate value

So question is, if I have an endpoint that returns an array of objects, how do I assert that the response contains/includes a particular object?

[jcamiel]

Hi @finlaydotb, sorry for the late answer.

Currently, you can only test for "leaf" in asserts (the right side XXX of this: jsonpath "$" includes '{"id":"123"}') .

You can change your test from this: jsonpath "$" includes "{\"id\":\"123\"}" to this:

jsonpath "$.id" == "123"

You can also use filters on JSONPath queries:

jsonpath "$.books" nth 0 == "Dune"

Or

jsonpath "$.books[0]" == "Dune"

This can be seems as restrictive but for the moment we don't have good syntax/spec for what you want. We need to define what would be a right answer if the test has been jsonpath "$" includes "{\"id\":\"123\", \"name\":\"foo\"}" and the response is actually {"name":"foo","id":"123"} for instance.