Install and Configure REST API for Rest Assured

In the previous post we learned about Extracting a JSON Response with Rest Assured and JSON Path. In this post we will Install and Configure a Fake Rest API on our local system.

Below is the REST API that will be Installing on our system:

JSON-SERVER

First, we will create a db.json file and place it on desktop:

{
  "posts": [
    { "id": 1, "title": "json-server", "author": "typicode" }
  ],
  "comments": [
    { "id": 1, "body": "some comment", "postId": 1 }
  ],
  "profile": { "name": "typicode" }
}

Then, we will install a JSON-SERVER on our local system using the following command:

$ npm install -g json-server

You will see output as following:

Now to traverse to Desktop via Terminal and then start JSON-SERVER using following command:

json-server --watch db.json

You will see output as following:

Go to http://localhost:3000/posts/1 in your browser, you'll get

In next post we will learn about automating the post request and sending data as a String in the body.