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Deserializing response body

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- [Instructor] Just as we use Java classes to model the body of an API request, we can do the same for the body of a response. This is known as deserializing. Let's make a GET call to obtain a single product. So we'll make a new Test, and let's call this one getDeserializedProduct. And we'll specify our endpoint. And let's get right into the call, so we can say given. And let's use a query parameter to specify the id. So we'll say given the id is, and let's just use 2, we've used that product before. Okay, now let's make the call. So given this query parameter, when, we say get on this endpoint. Now, usually, right here we would specify then, and that would give us a response in a form that would allow us to verify the body as JSON or XML. However, in this chapter, we want to get the response returned as a Java object. So instead of calling then, we're going to make a call to a method called as. And inside of as,…

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