support json path searching

Issue-ID: TEST-172
Change-Id: Id5a355ca0148efb97065c0a5aacd53ddfd11818d
Signed-off-by: DR695H <dr695h@att.com>

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/robotframework-onap/ONAPLibrary/JSONPathKeywords.py b/robotframework-onap/ONAPLibrary/JSONPathKeywords.py
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+# Copyright 2019 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+import json
+
+from robot.api.deco import keyword
+from jsonpath_rw import parse
+
+
+class JSONPathKeywords(object):
+    """JSONPATH is common resource for json path keywords.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(JSONPathKeywords, self).__init__()
+
+    @keyword
+    def json_search(self, expression, target):
+        """JSON Search takes in two params, the first is the jsonpath expression and the second is the json target
+        which is converted into string if needed and then compares them, returning the matches."""
+
+        jsonpath_expr = parse(expression)
+        if isinstance(target, str) or isinstance(target, unicode):
+            search_json = json.dumps(target)
+        else:
+            search_json = target
+
+        results = jsonpath_expr.find(search_json)
+        return results