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I am just playing around with some Json and Fluentassertions, I am able to make a call to an API successfully, get the results, deserialize them but for some reason when i get to do an assertion on the response its losing the data and it empty. I have debugged, can see the data flowing through and then losing it during assertion.

Any help appreciated.

{

    [TestClass]

    public class UnitTest1

    {

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();



         [TestMethod]

        public void ActorNotInSeason6Episode1()

        {

            try

            {

                //test = extent.CreateTest("Test 1");

                HttpResponseMessage respone = client.GetAsync("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/1399/season/6/episode/1/credits?api_key=").Result;

                Assert.IsTrue(respone.IsSuccessStatusCode.Equals(true));

                string ResponseMessage = respone.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

                Actors actors = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Actors>(ResponseMessage);

                //var a = Actors.cast["cast"];

                //var names = a.Children;

                //var a = actors.cast.Children();





           actors.cast.Should().Contain("Emilia Clarke", "Test");



            }

            catch(AssertFailedException)

            {

                Assert.Fail();



            }

        }



    }

}







    class Actors

    {

        public JArray cast  { get; set; }

        public JArray guest_stars { get; set; }



    }

}

JSON

{[

  {

    "character": "Daenerys Targaryen",

    "credit_id": "5256c8af19c2956ff60479f6",

    "gender": 1,

    "id": 1223786,

    "name": "Emilia Clarke",

    "order": 0,

    "profile_path": "/lRSqMNNhPL4Ib1hAJxmDFBXHAMU.jpg"

  }

]}

Using the following strongly typed definitions based on the expected JSON from themoviedb

public partial class RootObject {

    [JsonProperty("cast")]

    public Cast Cast { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("crew")]

    public Crew Crew { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("guest_stars")]

    public Cast GuestStars { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("id")]

    public long Id { get; set; }

}



public partial class Cast {

    [JsonProperty("character")]

    public string Character { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("credit_id")]

    public string CreditId { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("gender")]

    public long Gender { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("id")]

    public long Id { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("name")]

    public string Name { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("order")]

    public long Order { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("profile_path")]

    public string ProfilePath { get; set; }

}



public partial class Crew {

    [JsonProperty("id")]

    public long Id { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("credit_id")]

    public string CreditId { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("name")]

    public string Name { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("department")]

    public string Department { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("job")]

    public string Job { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("gender")]

    public long Gender { get; set; }



    [JsonProperty("profile_path")]

    public string ProfilePath { get; set; }

}

You would need to do the following in your test

//...



var actors = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(ResponseMessage);



//Assert

actors.Cast.Should().Contain(actor => actor.Name == "Emilia Clarke");

Here is fluentassertions extension for JSON, which contains many useful methods for asserting JSON:

Available extension methods
BeEquivalentTo()
ContainSingleElement()
ContainSubtree()
HaveCount()
HaveElement()
HaveValue()
MatchRegex()
NotBeEquivalentTo()
NotHaveElement()
NotHaveValue()
NotMatchRegex()

I am not an author of this library.