XRay - Post Test Step API give out of START_ARRAY token error

[Elie El-Tawil]

I'm getting this error when posting a simple JSON 

[{"step":"Click Action dropdown >> Add Person","data":"\n"}]

to the 

rest/raven/1.0/api/test/MyTestID/step/1

...any ideas?? Is it my Json file ?? I'm doing in in Java using unirest package with latests Xray version.

"stack-trace" -> "org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Can not deserialize instance of com.xpandit.raven.rest.api.teststep.beans.TestStepBean out of START_ARRAY token
at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@30fefdd3; line: 1, column: 1]
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException.from(JsonMappingException.java:163)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializationContext.mappingException(StdDeserializationContext.java:219)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializationContext.mappingException(StdDeserializationContext.java:212)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromArray(BeanDeserializer.java:875)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:597)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper._readValue(ObjectMapper.java:2704)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:1315)
at org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider.readFrom(JacksonJsonProvider.java:419)
at com"

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Elie El-Tawil,

have a look at the documentation of their REST API to see if you call the correct endpoint with the correct data.

The endpoint you're calling is available for editing an existing test step. Since this is about editing one test step, you should not send an array, but only a single element to it, so your request should look like this (without the square brackets):

{"step":"Click Action dropdown >> Add Person","data":"\n"}

Cheers,
Matthias.

[Elie El-Tawil]

Thanks the problem was those square brackets!