How to set cookie with the request using rest assured?

Question

I need to automate the rest API. The API is secured with Spring security.

Below is the code to authenticate :

Response response = given().auth()
                    .form(userName, password,   FormAuthConfig.springSecurity().withLoggingEnabled(new LogConfig(captor, true)))
                    .post("/home/xyz.html");

            Assert.assertTrue("Error occurs", response.statusCode() == 302);

            if (response.statusCode() == 302) {
                Cookie cookie = response.getDetailedCookie("JSESSIONID");
                result.actualFieldValue = "User Authenticated: Session ID ->" + cookie.getValue();
                System.out.println("Cookie set : "+cookie.getValue());
                apiTestSessionID = cookie.getValue();
            }

The user logs in and return 302 status, means redirection.I found the cookie and set in some global variable.

Now, i set the cookie with the request :

RequestSpecification reqSpecification = new RequestSpecBuilder().addCookie("JSESSIONID", AbstractBaseClass.apiTestSessionID).build();

            Map<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<String, String>();
            parameters.put("cstmrID", "000N0961");
            parameters.put("pageNumber", "1");
            parameters.put("pageSize", "10");
            parameters.put("sortColumnName", "FIELD_NM");
            parameters.put("sortDir", "asc");
            parameters.put("filterColumnName1", "");
            parameters.put("filterColumnName2", "USER_UPDT_EMAIL_ID");
            parameters.put("filterValue2", "");

            reqSpecification.queryParams(parameters);

            Response response = given().spec(reqSpecification).when().get("/service/customerConfig").thenReturn();
            System.out.println(response.asString());

But in response i get the login page HTML. I am not able to understand where i am doing wrong.

Assumptions :

1. Since with the post request, 302 is returned, do i need to redirect to the next url and after that perform get request with the cookie.
2. Is this the right way to set the cookie with the request.
3. Do i need to set the headers with the request. If yes, then following is the header info. Do i need to set all of them?

GET /example.com/abc.html HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 Cookie: JSESSIONID=C70A69F1C60D93DC3F8AC564BDE3F4DE.lon2mcaqaapp002; __utma=185291189.2055499590.1460104969.1460104969.1460618428.2

Answer 1

import io.restassured.RestAssured;
import io.restassured.http.ContentType;
import io.restassured.http.Cookies;

private Cookie cookie;

@BeforeClass
public void exampleOfLogin() {
    String body = String.format("//json");
    cookies = RestAssured.given()
            .contentType(ContentType.JSON)
            .when()
            .body(body)
            .post("www.test_test.com")
            .then()
            .statusCode(200)
            .extract()
            .response()
            .getDetailedCookies();
}

@Test
public void performActionsBasedOnCookies() {
//set cookies before making a post request and check the returned status code
    RestAssured.given()
            .cookies(cookies)
            .contentType(ContentType.JSON)
            .when()
            .post("www.test_url.com")
            .then()
            .statusCode(200);
}