REST API testing basics in Testing Fundamentals - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to send a GET request using the requests library.

Testing Fundamentals

response = requests.[1]('https://api.example.com/data')

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Aget

Bdelete

Cput

Dpost

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Common Mistakes

Using POST instead of GET when only retrieving data.

Using PUT or DELETE which modify data.

The get method sends a GET request to the specified URL.

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medium

Complete the code to check if the response status code is 200 (OK).

Testing Fundamentals

assert response.status_code == [1]

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A404

B200

C500

D301

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Common Mistakes

Using 404 which means Not Found.

Using 500 which means server error.

Status code 200 means the request was successful.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to parse JSON response correctly.

Testing Fundamentals

data = response.[1]()

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Acontent

Btext

Cjson

Dhtml

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Common Mistakes

Using text which returns raw string.

Using content which returns bytes.

The json() method parses the response body as JSON.

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hard

Fill both blanks to send a POST request with JSON data.

Testing Fundamentals

response = requests.[1]('https://api.example.com/create', json=[2])

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Apost

B{'name': 'John'}

C{'id': 123}

Dget

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using GET instead of POST for sending data.

Passing JSON as a string instead of a dictionary.

Use post to send data and pass JSON as a dictionary.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to assert the response contains expected data.

Testing Fundamentals

assert [1] in response.json() and response.json()[[2]] == [3]

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A'name'

B'status'

C'active'

D'id'

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Common Mistakes

Checking for wrong keys or values.

Not verifying key existence before value.

Check that the key 'status' exists and its value is 'active'.