A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at 1 [character 2 line 1]

[GaganVaidya]

Code I wrote yesterday:

package APITesting;

import static io.restassured.RestAssured.;
import static io.restassured.matcher.RestAssuredMatchers.;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;

import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import io.restassured.http.ContentType;
import io.restassured.response.Response;

public class ParsingResponse {

   @Test
void getBookObjet() {
	
	Response res=given()
		.contentType(ContentType.JSON)
	
	.when()
		.get("http://localhost:3000/Store");
	
	//get key value with JSONObject class
	JSONObject jo=new JSONObject(res.toString());		
	for(int i=0;i<jo.getJSONArray("book").length();i++) 
	{
		String str=jo.getJSONArray("book").getJSONObject(i).get("title").toString();
		System.out.println(str);
	}
	
}

}

File I have used for API testing:
book.json

Response I got in Console:
[RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 7.9.0
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
FAILED: APITesting.ParsingResponse.getBookObjet
org.json.JSONException: A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at 1 [character 2 line 1]

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Default test
Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0

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Default suite
Total tests run: 1, Passes: 0, Failures: 1, Skips: 0

[GaganVaidya]

Please give me a solution on it. I am stuck in the JSONObject class.

[lucas-nguyen-17]

This is a basic task of extracting value from json, and you're making a simple thing complicated. Rest-Assured has a way to deal with it using JsonPath class.

List<String> titles = new JsonPath(res.asString()).getList("Store.book.title");
System.out.println(titles);
//[CA Rahul, QA Aniket, Anime Anurag, Gamer Gagan]

[GaganVaidya]

Thanks for suggesting the simplest way to avoid complex code, I will implement this in my framework.

[GaganVaidya]

@lucas-nguyen-17 could you please give me your opinions on my rest-assured framework (https://github.com/GaganVaidya/APIFramework)

Thanks!

[jobby-tech]

JSONObject jo=new JSONObject(res.toString());

-> This should have been

JSONObject jo=new JSONObject(res.asString());

asString instead of toString, if you go back to the tutorial video the instructor would have updated it subsequently. :) I was also stuck in the same.