How to verify a string TYPE only and ignore its value

[nabeel-servcorp]

I know that the library provides some helpful methods for example ScrubMember(), ScrubMembersWithType(), IgnoreMember() etc. but neither of these is working for me because I am trying to verify an API response which is an auto-generated plain string. It is NOT a JSON response so none of the above-mentioned methods work. For now I tackled it with using ScrubLinesContaining("SM-") but I am wondering if there is any other solution in which I ignore the value of the string and only verify if the response is of type `string.

Because this string is not a GUID so I can't use ScrubInlineGuids() method.

[SimonCropp]

can u share the code of your test. so i can better understand the scenario

[nabeel-servcorp]

can u share the code of your test. so i can better understand the scenario

Here is my xUnit test method for the scenario. I have omitted irrelevant details for brevity.

[Fact]
public async Task CreateResource_Succeeds()
{
        var apiResponse = await _apiClient.CreateResource(requestModel); //apiResponse will be a plain non-JSON and non-GUID string
        Assert.NotNull(apiResponse);
        await Verifier
            .Verify(apiResponse)
            .ScrubLinesContaining("SM-");
}

[SimonCropp]

and what will the string contain?

[nabeel-servcorp]

Some auto-generated strings like "SM-abc123", "SM-xyz456", "SM-blablabla" etc.

[SimonCropp]

can you submit a failing unit test as a pull request