serialization of object to json in rest-assured request body
java, json, rest-assured, resteasy
Solution
You are probably using the built in Jettison JSON serializer with RestEasy. Jettison uses the XML-> Json convention (also known as BadgerFish). Replace Jettison with Jackson or GSon to get a JSon format compatible with RestAssured.
Problem
I'm making a rest api using resteasy, and testing it with rest-assured. Let's say that I have a class, `message`, with a property `text`. ``` @XmlRootElement public class message { @XmlElement public String text; } ``` The following test will try to post this object to a given url: ``` message msg = new message(); msg.text = "some message"; expect() .statusCode(200) .given() .contentType("application/json") .body(msg) .when() .post("/message"); ``` The msg object is serialized to json and posted, but not in the way that I want - not in the way resteasy need, that is. What's posted: ``` { "text": "some message" } ``` What's working: ``` { "message": { "text": "some message" } } ``` Does anyone have any clue on how I can make this work as expected?