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How to print content of responseXpath () in REST::Client module

I'm using REST::Client perl module to test my REST server. I want to print REST response as usual xml

Currently I'm using

print $client->responseContent()

which prints xml in one line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><ns2:messageReference xmlns:ns2="urn:com:test:xml:rest:mds:1"><messageId>775775</messageId></ns2:messageReference>

The REST::Client module also returns xpath context for the body content by $client->responseXpath(), but I cannot find a way to use it with toString() function from XML::LibXML, which allows to print it as I want:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
  <ns2:messageReference xmlns:ns2="urn:com:test:xml:rest:mds:1">
    <messageId>775775</messageId>
  </ns2:messageReference>
Solution

  • $client->responseContent() outputs the response as is, if you would like to beautify it use XML::LibXML

    my $dom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(string => $client->responseContent());
print $dom->toString();