Response Validation

Validate status, headers, and
body content

Automatically validate HTTP response status codes, headers, and body content. Ensure your APIs return exactly what you expect with powerful assertion capabilities.

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Validate API responses with multiple criteria

response-validation.yaml

requests:
  - name: Get User Profile
    url: https://api.example.com/users/1
    method: GET
    expect:
      status: 200
      headers:
        content-type: application/json
      body:
        id: 1
        username: "johndoe"
        email: "^[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+$"
        active: true

requests:
  - name: Get User Profile
    url: https://api.example.com/users/1
    method: GET
    expect:
      status: 200
      headers:
        content-type: application/json
      body:
        id: 1
        username: "johndoe"
        email: "^[a-z]+@[a-z]+\\.[a-z]+$"
        active: true

Key Benefits

Why use Response Validation?

Comprehensive Validation

Validate status codes, headers, and JSON body content with exact, partial, or pattern matching.

Regex Pattern Support

Use powerful regex patterns to validate dynamic values like IDs, timestamps, and tokens.

Clear Failure Reports

Get detailed reports showing exactly what failed and what was expected vs actual.

Use Cases

Perfect for these scenarios

API contract testing and validation

Ensuring response format compliance

Regression testing for API changes

Validating error responses

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Validate status, headers, andbody content