multiple accept values in request for wiremock - json

Question

I'm attempting to write a mock for my api.
To test it correctly I need a request whick allows application/json and / to be accepted.
Which sould work in HTML like this
application/json, */*
When I use this in my wiremock mapping json file, i recieve errors, or with minor changes just "not matching" response.
My Json is build like this
"request": {
"urlPathPattern": "/publish",
"method": "POST",
"headers": {
"Accept": {
"contains": "application/json, */*"
}
},
"bodyPatterns": []
}
I couldn't find any solution, neither on the wiremock docs nor with the help of google, but maybe my description of the problem was just not showing the results I would have needed.
Can anyone enlighten me?
with best regards

Answer 1

As I understand your problem, you need to accept both application/json and */* as Accept header values. I'm assuming that the case where you'd receive something matching */* would interpret those * as wildcards, so some/type would match. In this case, you just want to make sure that the Accept header has some value.
If that is the case, I'd recommend you use matches to do regex matching on the header.
"request": {
"urlPathPattern": "/publish",
"method": "POST",
"headers": {
"Accept": {
"matches": ".*\/.*"
}
},
"bodyPatterns": []
}
If you instead need to match exactly on either application/json or */*, you'd need to do something like...
"request": {
"urlPathPattern": "/publish",
"method": "POST",
"headers": {
"Accept": {
"matches": "(application\/json|\*\/\*)"
}
},
"bodyPatterns": []
}