Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
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Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
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Re: Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
#2Does it support Windows? I don’t see a Windows version on the GitHub releases page.
Re: Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
#3Does it support Windows? I don’t see a Windows version on the GitHub releases page.
looks like based on linux is the reason
Re: Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
#4Does it support Windows? I don’t see a Windows version on the GitHub releases page.
With wsl (or docker desktop), for non production tooling, I don't think it's relevant anymore.
(I'm not saying it's on par with linux, I'm just saying it's usable)
Re: Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
#5Wonderful little tool! Something similar has been swirling aronud my head for a while. Thank you for sharing, it looks very useful.
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#6Interesting, a few questions:
1. How hard/easy is it to make responses dynamic, i.e. to use something from the request data like query/path param or a body to execute function instead of hardcoding the response
2. What's the main motivation for creating this tool? I feel like every programming language have similar tool already - WireMock for Java etc. Why should people switch?
Re: Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
#7the name mock has also been used for the RPM build environment tool (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock)
Re: Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples
#8Interesting, a few questions: 1. How hard/easy is it to make responses dynamic, i.e. to use something from the request data like query/path param or a body to execute function instead of hardcoding the response 2. What's the main motivation for creating this tool? I feel like every programming language have similar tool already - WireMock for Java etc. Why should people switch?
Hi thanks for the feedback checking out the project.
> What's the main motivation for creating this tool?
Similar tools exist out there for sure, but they are either complex (more than I wish they'd be) or somehow require you to use a specific programming languages. Mock lets you accomplish this without telling you which language you should use.
Also if you're using mock inside CI pipelines, it also helps the fact that you can just download a executable tool that does not require you the java platform or any other dependency.
> How hard/easy is it to make responses dynamic, i.e. to use something from the request data like query/path param or a body to execute function instead of hardcoding the response
With mock you can use shell scripts as "request handlers". With that said, capturing a query param or a JSON field from the request body is as simple as:
> $ USER_NAME=$(mock get-payload user.name)
> $ SOME_QUERY_STRING_PARAM=$(mock get-query foo)
You can see more of this topic here: https://dhuan.github.io/mock/shell_scripts.html
> I feel like every programming language have similar tool already - WireMock for Java etc. Why should people switch?
True. If people are happy with these tools and needing to use java (or any other lang the tool pulls you into), then there's not much reason to switch.
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#9> Making an existing API slow can be easily accomplished combining mock’s Base APIs and the delay option.
Ah, it's the "billable hours" variable.
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#10the name mock has also been used for the RPM build environment tool ( https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock )
Hi, thanks for the feedback!
That's true, it's not a very unique name. I started building it, but only months later I thought of making it public. And then never thought of renaming it.