In the last tutorial, I have explained How to test PUT Request using Rest Assured. In this tutorial, I will automate a DELETE Request using Rest Assured. I will verify the status code, line of Status, and content of the Response.
To setup a basic Rest Assured Maven Project, click here and Gradle project, click here.
What is DELETE Method?
An HTTP DELETE method is used to delete an existing resource from collection of resources. The DELETE method requests the origin server to delete the resource identified by the Request-URI. On successful deletion of resource, it returns 200 (OK) and 204 (No Content) status code. It may return as 202 (Accepted) status code if request is queued. . To know more about Rest API, please click here.
Below are the steps to test a DELETE Request using Rest Assured:
The steps to test the DELETE request is similar to any API request, like GET, POST, PUT. To know about the steps and various imports used in the below example in detail, please refer to the tutorial for POST Request.
Let’s see existing details of a Employee ID 3 using Postman:
Let’s write DELETE request in REST Assured in Non BDD Format for id 3:–
public class Delete_NonBddDemo {
RequestSpecification requestSpecification;
Response response;
ValidatableResponse validatableResponse;
@Test
public void deleteUser() {
RestAssured.baseURI = "http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api";
// Create a request specification
requestSpecification = RestAssured.given();
// Calling DELETE method
response = requestSpecification.delete("/v1/delete/3");
// Let's print response body.
String resString = response.prettyPrint();
/*
* To perform validation on response, we need to get ValidatableResponse type of
* response
*/
validatableResponse = response.then();
// Get status code
validatableResponse.statusCode(200);
// It will check if status line is as expected
validatableResponse.statusLine("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
// Check response - message attribute
validatableResponse.body("message", equalTo("Successfully! Record has been deleted"));
}
}
Let’s write DELETE request in REST Assured in BDD Format:–
public class Delete_BDDDemo {
ValidatableResponse validatableResponse;
@Test
public void deleteUser() {
validatableResponse = given()
.baseUri("http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/delete/3")
.contentType(ContentType.JSON)
.when()
.delete()
.then()
.assertThat().statusCode(200)
.body("message", equalTo("Successfully! Record has been deleted"));
System.out.println("Response :" + validatableResponse.extract().asPrettyString());
}
}
We are done. Congratulations on making it through this tutorial and hope you found it useful! Happy Learning!! Cheers!!
QA Automation Expert 