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Traffic Parrot 5.35.8 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.35.8. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

• Added new "does not contain" request matcher support to the UI

Fixes

• API now allows cross-origin requests
• Trim whitespace from JSONPath request matcher to avoid confusing not matched issues
• Fixed an issue exporting/importing HTTP mappings ZIP between different scenarios
• Fixed a UI issue where gRPC mappings were saved with empty webhooks
• Library upgrades to fix OWASP issues

Changes

• UI now makes it clear that HTTP record/proxy/passthrough is not supported in a non default scenario yet

How do I ignore JSON array order during request matching?

When matching JSON requests, sometimes the array order is unpredictable e.g. if the array is used to represent a set of unordered objects.

{
  "exampleId": 1
  "exampleRoot": {
    "exampleArray": [
      {
        "id": 1
      },
      {
        "id": 2
      }
    ]
  }
}

To match this type of request in Traffic Parrot, there are several options, here are some of them:

• matchesJson matcher with {{anyElements}} wildcard token

  {
    "exampleId": 1,
    "exampleRoot": {
      "exampleArray": "{{anyElements}}"
    }
  }

• matchesJsonPath matcher which uses standard JSONPath notation

  $[?(@.exampleId == 1 && '1' in @.exampleRoot.exampleArray[*].id && '2' in @.exampleRoot.exampleArray[*].id)]

You can find more examples of advanced matchers in the Traffic Parrot documentation

Traffic Parrot 5.35.6 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.35.6. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Fixes

• Library upgrades to fix OWASP issues

Changes

• HTTP mapping ZIP export now includes data directory