JSONPath: How to test unordered array equality?

[ens-scmeeu]

I'm trying to validate that the name key nested a few levels deep inside JSON objects (which is inside the array specified by the objects key) contains two items, but without respect to ordering.

This is what I tried to do, but it didn't parse (it can't seem to parse the JSON array - regardless I don't think this would do unordered compare anyway):

jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name" == ["foo", "bar"]

This works currently (but it is a brittle test if the ordering of the array changes):

jsonpath "$.objects[0].working.input.name" == "foo"
jsonpath "$.objects[1].working.input.name" == "bar"

Any other way to do this compare in an order agnostic way?

[jcamiel]

Hi,

jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name"returns a collection so you could do this:

jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name" includes "foo"
jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name" includes "bar"
jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name" count == 2
jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name" isCollection
jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name" nth 0 == "foo"
jsonpath "$.objects[*].working.input.name" nth 1 == "bar"
# etc....

(if I'm not mistaken ☺️)

[ens-scmeeu]

Awesome, thanks! I was just trying contains which didn't work, but includes as you specified works perfectly!

[jcamiel]

See #1896, we may merge contains and includes and just keep contains because it's not obvious what's the difference between the two

[ens-scmeeu]

I think this is a really good idea (gave it a thumbs up). Admittedly I was scratching my head as to why there were both options that worked on different types.