Support REST Assured 4

[wilkinsona]

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[bric3]

For reference, while we are probably not using all REST-Assured features or APIs, we are already using REST Assured 4.0.0 and Spring Restdocs 2.0.3.RELEASE together without any visible issues.

[wilkinsona]

Thank you, @bric3. That's useful info. This may turn into a just adding some compatibility testing. It may also make sense to do some repackaging as the current REST Assured support is in a restassured3 package.

[bric3]

Ah yes I forgot to say that indeed we are using the API that lives under restassured3.

[wilkinsona]

I've added some compatibility testing against both 4.0.0 and 4.1.1 (#640). I'll keep this issue open to deal with the restassured3 package. At the moment, I'm undecided between a couple of options:

• deprecate the restassured3 package and provide the functionality in a restassured package
• provide a restassured4 package with the same functionality

The first option is cleaner, but backs us into a corner if there's a REST Assured 5 with breaking changes in the future. The second avoids that problem but at the cost of some duplication. I think I'm leaning towards the first option at the moment.

[bric3]

Isn't there already a restassured package that target RestAssured 2 ?
Also thinking further ahead, if it's not restassured 5 it might be restassured 6 that break compatibility.

[wilkinsona]

Isn't there already a restassured package that target RestAssured 2 ?

There is in 1.2 where it's deprecated. It was removed in 2.0.

[asaikali]

On SpringBoot 2.3.1 I updated rest assured to 4.3.1 and groovy to 3.0.4 and things seem to be working just fine. I don't have a lot of tests yet that are using RestDocs just a few as I have just started using RestDocs on this project.

[wilkinsona]

Thanks, @asaikali. #688 has expanded the REST Assured compatibility testing to cover 4.2 and 4.3 and didn't reveal any problems.

[wilkinsona]

This has been superseded by #752 where the package will be renamed from restassured3 to restassured.