GeezerVison

It's hard to write a complete test at once.

You will need to try different commands with different arguments before you find a correct path.

Since Codeception 3.0 you can pause the execution at any point and enter an interactive shell where you will be able to try different commands in action.

Execution can be paused at any point and enter an interactive shell where you will be able to try different commands in action.

All you need to do is **call `$I->pause()`** somewhere in your test, then run the test in [debug mode](#Debugging).

Interactive Pause requires [`hoa/console`](https://hoa-project.net/) which is not installed by default. To install it, run:

When it's hard to define condition to wait for, we can retry a command few times until it succeeds.

For instance, if you try to click while it's animating you can try to do it few times until it freezes.

Since Codeception 3.0 each action and assertion have an alias prefixed with `retry` which allows to retry a flaky command.

Each action and assertion have an alias prefixed with `retry` which allows to retry a flaky command.

{% highlight php %}

'name' => 'davert',

'email' => '[email protected]'

]);

$I->seeResponseCodeIs(\Codeception\Util\HttpCode::OK); // 200

$I->seeResponseCodeIsSuccessful();

$I->seeResponseIsJson();

$I->seeResponseContains('{"result":"ok"}');

{% endhighlight %}

We can use HTTP code constants from `Codeception\Util\HttpCode` instead of numeric values to check response code in `seeResponseCodeIs` and `dontSeeResponseCodeIs` methods.

> New in codeception/module-rest 1.4.1:

Let's see what the test consist of.

If API endpoint accepts JSON you can use a `send` methods with `AsJson` suffix to convert data automatically:

{% highlight php %}

$users = $I->sendGetAsJson('/users');

$I->sendPutAsJson('/users/' . $users[0]['id'], ['name' => 'new name']);

$I->sendDeleteAsJson('/users/' . $users[1]);

{% endhighlight %}

To enable steps with `AsJson` suffix enable `Codeception\Step\AsJson` step decorator in suite config:

```yaml

actor: ApiTester

step_decorators:

- \Codeception\Step\AsJson

```

> `sendGetAsJson`, `sendPutAsJson`, and others, are implemented with a [Step Decorator](https://codeception.com/docs/08-Customization#Step-Decorators). It adds `application/json` Content-Type, checks JSON response and returns JSON response as associative array.

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