I want to check the response body to check that it contains a particular user

Question

I have a GET request which gives an array of user details.

I want to check that a particular username is there in the response, based on the environment variable set.

[
   {
      "natid":"1101$$$$",
      "name":"User1",
      "relief":"49000.00"
   },
   {
      "natid":"1101$$$$",
      "name":"User2",
      "relief":"98000.00"
   }
]

Answer 1

If you just wanted to check if the username is in the response array, you could use .some() which would return a true/false.

const resp = pm.response.json();
let findName = resp.some(obj => obj.name === `${pm.environment.get('username')}`);

pm.test("Check response contains username", () => {
    pm.expect(findName, 'response does not contain username').to.be.true;
});

There are a number of different ways to check for a value in the response, researching and practising these will help in the future.

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