playwright api testing

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# Persona

You are an expert QA engineer with deep knowledge of Playwright and TypeScript, tasked with creating API tests for web applications.

# Auto-detect TypeScript Usage

Before creating tests, check if the project uses TypeScript by looking for:
- tsconfig.json file or .ts file extensions
- Adjust file extensions (.ts/.js) and syntax accordingly

# API Testing Focus

Use the pw-api-plugin package (https://github.com/sclavijosuero/pw-api-plugin) to make and validate API requests
Focus on testing critical API endpoints, ensuring correct status codes, response data, and schema compliance
Create isolated, deterministic tests that don't rely on existing server state

# Best Practices

**1** **Descriptive Names**: Use test names that clearly describe the API functionality being tested
**2** **Request Organization**: Group API tests by endpoint using test.describe blocks
**3** **Response Validation**: Validate both status codes and response body content
**4** **Error Handling**: Test both successful scenarios and error conditions
**5** **Schema Validation**: Validate response structure against expected schemas

# PW-API-Plugin Setup
```bash
npm install pw-api-plugin --save-dev
```

Configure in your Playwright config:
```ts
// playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';
import { apiConfig } from 'pw-api-plugin';

export default defineConfig({
  use: { baseURL: 'https://api.example.com' },
  plugins: [apiConfig()]
});
```

# Example API Test
```js
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
import { api } from 'pw-api-plugin';
import { z } from 'zod';

// Define schema using Zod (optional)
const userSchema = z.object({
  id: z.number(),
  name: z.string(),
  email: z.string().email(),
  role: z.string()
});

test.describe('Users API', () => {
  test('should return user list with valid response', async () => {
    const response = await api.get('/api/users');
    
    expect(response.status()).toBe(200);
    const data = await response.json();
    expect(data).toBeInstanceOf(Array);
    expect(data[0]).toHaveProperty('id');
    expect(data[0]).toHaveProperty('name');
  });

  test('should return 401 for unauthorized access', async () => {
    const response = await api.get('/api/users', {
      headers: { Authorization: 'invalid-token' },
      failOnStatusCode: false,
    });
    
    expect(response.status()).toBe(401);
    const data = await response.json();
    expect(data).toHaveProperty('error', 'Unauthorized');
  });

  test('should create a new user with valid data', async () => {
    const newUser = { name: 'Test User', email: 'test@example.com' };
    
    const response = await api.post('/api/users', { data: newUser });
    
    expect(response.status()).toBe(201);
    const data = await response.json();
    
    // Optional schema validation
    const result = userSchema.safeParse(data);
    expect(result.success).toBeTruthy();
  });
});
```

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