Integration test methods such as Integration::RequestHelpers#get and Integration::RequestHelpers#post return objects of class TestResponse, which represent the HTTP response results of the requested controller actions.

See Response for more information on controller response objects.

Methods

Class Public methods

from_response(response)

📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/testing/test_response.rb, line 13
    def self.from_response(response)
      new response.status, response.headers, response.body
    end
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Instance Public methods

parsed_body()

Returns a parsed body depending on the response MIME type. When a parser corresponding to the MIME type is not found, it returns the raw body.

Examples

get "/posts"
response.content_type      # => "text/html; charset=utf-8"
response.parsed_body.class # => String
response.parsed_body       # => "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n..."

get "/posts.json"
response.content_type      # => "application/json; charset=utf-8"
response.parsed_body.class # => Array
response.parsed_body       # => [{"id"=>42, "title"=>"Title"},...

get "/posts/42.json"
response.content_type      # => "application/json; charset=utf-8"
response.parsed_body.class # => Hash
response.parsed_body       # => {"id"=>42, "title"=>"Title"}
📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/testing/test_response.rb, line 35
    def parsed_body
      @parsed_body ||= response_parser.call(body)
    end
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response_parser()

📝 Source code 
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/testing/test_response.rb, line 39
    def response_parser
      @response_parser ||= RequestEncoder.parser(media_type)
    end
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