Cannot check for empty array

[johnrhunt]

When I use:

  And the JSON node "data" should be equal to "[]"

I get the following:

 And the JSON node "data" should be equal to "[]"            # Ubirak\RestApiBehatExtension\Json\JsonContext::theJsonNodeShouldBeEqualTo()
      array(0) is not equal to string(2) '[]'
      -Expected
      +Actual
      @@ -2 +2,2 @@
      -string(2) "[]"
      +array(0) {
      +} (Ubirak\RestApiBehatExtension\Json\WrongJsonExpectation)

I've tried, but I can't figure out why this is happening. Can anyone shed some light on this? It looks to me like an empty array needs to get translated into the string [] by Ubirak

[johnrhunt]

The JSON I was running this against was:

{
  "data": []
}

[bystro]

You are right @johnrhunt :)

The code should be changed in the following https://github.com/ubirak/rest-api-behat-extension/blob/master/src/Json/JsonContext.php#L42 https://github.com/ubirak/rest-api-behat-extension/blob/master/src/Json/JsonContext.php#L179

However I think it should go more abstractly like And the JSON node "data" should be empty And the JSON should be empty

[tyx]

Hello !

You can use the JSON array node "data" should have 0 element

Hope it fits your need

[tyx]

But yes we could create a proxy around the empty use case ! Looks fine for me

[johnrhunt]

I followed @tyx 's recommendation - it worked lovely thank you.

[shouze]

@johnrhunt so, closing it