Web Service - Representational State Transfer (REST|RESTful) Web services in Java
When testing a Rest API (ie when writing a unit test), there is two approach:
Example:
public class ServerClientTest {
private HttpServer server;
private WebTarget target;
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
server = Main.startServer();
Client c = ClientBuilder.newClient();
target = c.target(Main.BASE_URI);
}
@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
server.stop();
}
/**
* Test to see that the message "Got it!" is sent in the response.
*/
@Test
public void testGetIt() {
String responseMsg = target.path("myresource").request().get(String.class);
assertEquals("Got it!", responseMsg);
}
}