For one of the projects i manage i have two teams and in the end, one implements web services for the other to consume. In production and integration testing, things tend to go well. But when we are faced with debugging or testing the side that consumes web services, we need something more.
I love do discover new things or new ways of doing things, enter EasyMock (https://github.com/CyberAgent/node-easymock). It is a small nodejs web server that returns any file on disk with extra options in it’s config.json file.
You install it with :
$ npm install -g easymock
$ easymock Server running on http://localhost:3000 Listening on port 3000 and 3001 Documentation at: http://localhost:3000/_documentation/ Logs at: http://localhost:3000/_logs/
If you wanted to mock a CurrentUserCount rest web service which is located at /api/CurrentUserCount, all you need to do is create a “api” directory with a file named “CurrentUserCount_get.json” within it. Here is that result :
There is even a handy automatically created documentation page:
Happy mocking !