From 6d15904ac7ac399ee938963e40ec3ee276d024f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Page <tom.page@alfresco.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 11:57:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RM-5837 Only assert the return code if we're not expecting a
 failure.

---
 .../src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/core/v0/BaseAPI.java     | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/core/v0/BaseAPI.java b/rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/core/v0/BaseAPI.java
index 06674c99e1..8f77a8403d 100644
--- a/rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/core/v0/BaseAPI.java
+++ b/rm-automation/rm-automation-community-rest-api/src/main/java/org/alfresco/rest/core/v0/BaseAPI.java
@@ -408,7 +408,10 @@ public abstract class BaseAPI
         try
         {
             HttpResponse httpResponse = doRequestJson(HttpPost.class, requestUrl, adminUser, adminPassword, requestParams);
-            assertEquals("POST request was not successful.", httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode(), 200);
+            if (!expectFailure)
+            {
+                assertEquals("POST request was not successful.", httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode(), 200);
+            }
             return httpResponse;
         }
         catch (InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException error)