How to pass an array object in post request

Question

I am new to rest assured and trying to pass the following body in the post request.

JSON Payload :

{
    "apikey": "****",
    "collectortoken": "***",
    "medium": "*",
    "uniquekey": "tcode",
    "contacts": [{
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "tcode": "2597566"
        },
        {
            "tcode": "9990"
        }
    ]
}

I even had tried the following code:

    JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
    
    obj.put("apikey", "****");
    
    obj.put("collectortoken", "***");

    obj.put("medium", "2");

    obj.put("uniquekey", "tcode");

    obj.put("contacts", Arrays.asList(new LinkedHashMap<String, String>() {
        
        {
                
            put("email",name);

            put("tcode",tcode);
        }
        {

            put("tcode",tcode);
        }

Can someone help me on this.

Thanks

Answer 1

A couple of ways you can generate this payload, JSONObject / Map / Serialization

Using JSONObject :

import org.json.simple.JSONArray;

import org.json.simple.JSONObject;

JSONObject jo = new JSONObject();
jo.put("email", "[email protected]");
jo.put("tcode", "2597566");

JSONObject jo1 = new JSONObject();
jo1.put("tcode", "9990");

JSONArray ja = new JSONArray();
ja.add(jo);
ja.add(jo1);

JSONObject mainObj = new JSONObject();
mainObj.put("apikey", "123");
mainObj.put("collectortoken", "456");
mainObj.put("medium", "2");
mainObj.put("uniquekey", "tcode");
mainObj.put("contacts", ja);

Using Map :

LinkedHashMap<String, Object> map = new LinkedHashMap<>();
map.put("apikey", "124");
map.put("collectortoken", "456");
map.put("medium", "789");
map.put("uniquekey", "111");

map.put("contacts", Arrays.asList(new LinkedHashMap<String, Object>() {
    {
        put("email", "[email protected]");
        put("tcode", "2597566");
    }
}, new LinkedHashMap<String, Object>() {
    {
        put("tcode", "9990");
    }
}));