How to confirm an Error Code?

New to APIs/Postman
1

When I make a request, I’m expecting an error with code 79 , but I cant get to validate it:

My response body is:
{
“errors”: [
79
]
}

I am trying with:

var jsonData = JSON.parse(responseBody);
pm.test("Proper error ", function () {
pm.expect(jsonData.errors).to.eql(79);
});

But I get:
Proper error | AssertionError: expected [ 79 ] to deeply equal 79

2

Hey @parsy2

errors is an array so it wouldn’t equal that value.

You could try this:

.to.include(79);

More information about the chai library can be found here:

https://www.chaijs.com/api/bdd/

3

This way:

var jsonData = JSON.parse(responseBody);
pm.test("Proper error ", function () {
  pm.expect(jsonData.errors).to.include(79);
});

Returns this:

Proper error | AssertionError: expected [] to include 79
4

Was the response body the same? Did that return an empty errors array?

I can’t see what you can so I’m only offering a possible solution.