Dredd passing trailing square bracket to API - apiblueprint

Question

I'm using Dredd to test an API I have written. It works fine until I try to vary the action uri within a resource. When I have an action of the form
## Retrieve Task [GET /task/{id}]
it sends a request to Drakov with the ] appended. This Drakov server is running the blueprint document.
Drakov 0.1.16 Listening on port 8090
[LOG] GET /task/myid]
[LOG] DELETE /task/myid]
[LOG] GET /task/myid]
You can see this request has an extra ] on the end.
This is my blueprint. It is a subset of the example from the Api Blueprint examples:
FORMAT: 1A
# Advanced Action API
A resource action is – in fact – a state transition. This API example demonstrates an action - state transition - to another resource.
## API Blueprint
# Tasks [/tasks/tasks{?status,priority}]
+ Parameters
+ status `test` (string)
+ priority `1` (number)
## Retrieve Task [GET /task/{id}]
This is a state transition to another resource
+ Parameters
+ id: `myid` (string)
+ Response 200 (application/json)
{
"id": 123,
"name": "Go to gym",
"done": false,
"type": "task"
}
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Your API Blueprint has multiple errors. For instance,
+ Parameters
+ status `test` (string)
+ priority `1` (number)
...should be:
+ Parameters
+ status: `test` (string)
+ priority: `1` (number)
Also, you are defining a resource Tasks with URI Template /tasks/tasks{?status,priority} and then you are trying to define a GET action for the resource with a different URI Template. That is confusing.
I tried to create a sample API Blueprint (saved as sample-blueprint.md) like this:
FORMAT: 1A
# My API
## Task [/task/{id}]
### Retrieve Task [GET]
+ Parameters
+ id: `123` (string)
+ Response 200 (application/json)
{
"id": 123,
"name": "Go to gym",
"done": false,
"type": "task"
}
Then I launched a Drakov server in one terminal like this:
drakov -f *.md
Then I tried to run Dredd:
dredd sample-blueprint.md http://localhost:3000
Everything passed correctly:
$ dredd sample-blueprint.md http://localhost:3000
info: Beginning Dredd testing...
pass: GET /task/123 duration: 42ms
complete: 1 passing, 0 failing, 0 errors, 0 skipped, 1 total
complete: Tests took 50ms
Is this something you originally wanted to achieve?