We introduced a special response_body assertion to test our docs snippets. The match assertion does the same job though and can be reused and adapted where needed. ResponseBodyAssertion contains provides much better and accurate errors though, which can be now utilized in MatchAssertion so that many more REST tests can benefit from readable error messages.
Each response body gets always stashed and can be retrieved for later evaluations already. Instead of providing the response body as strings that get parsed to json objects separately, then converted to maps as ResponseBodyAssertion did, we parse everything once, the json is part of the yaml test, which is supported. The only downside is that json comments cannot be used, rather yaml comments should be used (// C style vs # ). There were only two docs tests that were using comments in ingest-node.asciidoc where I went ahead and remove the comments which didn't seem that useful anyways.
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