How to get the value from a List using Rest Assured?

Question

I am trying to grab the first value of courseNumber for studenId=123 using Rest Assured.

When I using

.body("students.courseList.courseNumber[0]",equalTo(1000000000))

I am getting:

Expected: <1000000000>
Actual: [1000000000, 1000000001, 1000000002, 1000000003, ...........]

There are more than 10 courseList for studentId 123. Also is it possible to use regex to grab a particular element from JSON Response or how do I get the path of an element when I have a few thousand lines of JSON Response.

Sample Response -

        {
            "students": [
                 {
                    "studentId": "ABC",
                    "studentName": "Abcd Abcd",
                    "courseDescription": "AAJSHKJASSJAK LASNLKASA KJk;;K K;;KK;K;KL;K;",
                    "creditRemaining": 100,
                    "classStartDate": "20191220"
                },
                {
                    "studentId": "123",
                    "studentName": "DEFG, VBNH",
                    "courseDescription": "AAJSHKJASSJAK LASNLKASA KJk;;K K;;KK;K;KL;K;",
                    "classSchedule": 2,
                    "classStartDate": "20191220",
                    "slotsRemaining": 10,
                    "courseList": [
                        {
                            "courseNumber": 1000000000,
                            "courseName": "Chemistry",
                            "courseInstructor": "HGJ IOUIOU"
                            "courseCity": "New York",
                            "courseLevel": 100,
                            "description": "GJKJLKJLafgdhgf ljkllklk klyiyy mnbbnkljlkj 
       yttiuyuyuyoyo 
                         jhlkjkljkl"},
                    {
                        "courseNumber": 1000000001,
                        "courseName": "History",
                        "courseInstructor": "HGJ IOUIOU"
                        "courseCity": "New York",
                        "courseLevel": 100,
                        "description": "GJKJLKJLafgdhgf ljkllklk klyiyy mnbbnkljlkj yttiuyuyuyoyo 
                         jhlkjkljkl"},

        ]
        }

Check [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21166137/rest-assured-is-it-possible-to-extract-value-from-request-json) out. — Raj, Oct 30 '19 at 23:01

Arun Nair · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-31T17:58:01.083

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students.courseList.courseNumber[0][0] --> will give 1000000000

students.courseList.courseNumber[0][1] --> will give 1000000001

edited Oct 31 '19 at 17:58

answered Oct 31 '19 at 03:02

Arun Nair

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when I use this it actually returns all the course numbers instead of the first one – Shiv Oct 31 '19 at 16:38
Expected: <1000000000> Actual: [1000000000, 1000000001, 1000000002, 1000000003, ...........] – Shiv Oct 31 '19 at 16:38
Edited the answer. check it out. if it works, mark the answer as Correct – Arun Nair Oct 31 '19 at 17:58

How to get the value from a List using Rest Assured?

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