[WS] Validate OpenAPI against Specification

Description

Validate an OpenAPI/Swagger response body, request body, or string against an OpenAPI/Swagger specification. The OpenAPI/Swagger specification input can be a string, URL, or file path.

Keyword name: validateOpenAPIAgainstSpecification

Parameters

Validate an OpenAPI/Swagger request against an OpenAPI/ Swagger specification:

Parameter	Parameter Type	Required	Description
request	RequestObject	Yes	Specify the request object that needs to be validated.
specSrc	String	Yes	Specify the OpenAPI/Swagger specification used to validate the OpenAPI/Swagger object.
flowControl	FailureHandling	Optional	Specify failure handling schema to determine whether the execution should be allowed to continue or stop.

Validate an OpenAPI/Swagger response against an OpenAPI/ Swagger specification

Parameter	Parameter Type	Required	Description
response	ResponseObject	Yes	Specify the response object that needs to be validated
request	RequestObject	Yes	Specify the request object that needs to be validated.
specSrc	String	Yes	Specify the OpenAPI/Swagger specification used to validate the OpenAPI/Swagger object.
flowControl	FailureHandling	Optional	Specify failure handling schema to determine whether the execution should be allowed to continue or stop.

Returns

Parameter Type	Description
boolean	true if the response passes the validation false if the response does not pass the validation

If Katalon Studio cannot find the schema file or the response does not pass the validation, throw StepFailedException.

Example

In this example, you want to validate the request and response against a Swagger specification.

RequestObject request = findTestObject('Object Repository/Swagger - Get Inventory - Passed')

ResponseObject response = null

String specSrcURL = 'http://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json'{"\n"}{"\n"}//Validate request
if (WS.validateOpenAPIAgainstSpecification(request, specSrcURL)) {
    response = WS.sendRequest(request)

    //Validate response
    WS.validateOpenAPIAgainstSpecification(response, request, specSrcURL)
}

String specSrcFileLocation = FileUtil.getFile('example/swagger-openapi/swagger.json').getAbsolutePath()

//Validate request
if (WS.validateOpenAPIAgainstSpecification(request, specSrcFileLocation, FailureHandling.CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE)) {
    response = WS.sendRequest(request)

    //Validate response
    WS.validateOpenAPIAgainstSpecification(response, request, specSrcFileLocation, FailureHandling.CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE)
}​