Ignore whitespace differences in response body ?

[tbolon]

In the API I am testing, the XML returned is not indented (single line).

But I would like to be able to indent the body assert content in my .haml file for clarity.

Is it possible to ignore carriage-return and indentation differences when comparing the response body with the content of the file?

[jcamiel]

Hi, currently, the response body assert (json or xml) are whitespace sensitive.

The same issue has been reported in #270 and we should definitively switch the body assert (json/xml) to a "semantic one", as there is already a raw string assert that can be use it you want to be whitespace sensitive. This semantic assert should ignore whitespaces, order in fields ? etc...

When we implement this feature, if you want to test the response body {"state":true}, you could use:

GET http://test.com
HTTP/* *
# The following assert is NOT whitespace sensitive
# It uses a json body assert https://hurl.dev/docs/asserting-response.html#json-body
{
  "state": true
}

If you really want to test a "precise" response (regarding whitespaces etc...), you could use raw strings https://hurl.dev/docs/asserting-response.html#raw-string-body

GET http://test.com
HTTP/* *
# The following assert is whitespace sensitive
# It uses a raw string body assert https://hurl.dev/docs/asserting-response.html#raw-string-body
```{"state":true}```

[SteveLauC]

Another bump for this🫣, this is the only issue that stops me from using hurl in our integration tests