How to handle negative scenarios 401, 400, 500?

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Hi Nishan,

In the documentation fo POST you’ll see expected_status

By default this keyword fails if a status code with error values is returned in the response, this behavior can be modified using the expected_status and msg parameters, read more about it in Status Should Be keyword documentation. In order to disable this implicit assert mechanism you can pass as expected_status the values any or anything.

New requests keywords like GET or GET On Session (starting from 0.8 version) already have an implicit assert mechanism that, by default, verifies the response status code. Status Should Be keyword can be useful when you disable implicit assert using expected_status=anything.

You probably want something like this:

POST    ${endpoint}    json=${data}    expected_status=401    headers=${headers}    timeout=${TIMEOUT}

Then that keyword will pass and the following keywords will work as you want.

You can do the same with expected_status=400 and expected_status=500 as needed

Dave.

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