mock-api-server

A flexible and powerful stand-in API server.

This server is meant to be booted quickly (for example, inside a test suite) in a Node.js process.

Booting

From the command-line:

./node_modules/.bin/mock-api-server --port PORT

To boot once for a test:

var MockApi = require('mock-api-server');
var api = new MockApi({"port": 7000});
api.start(function(err) {
  // ... do stuff ...
  api.stop();
})

To connect to an existing server:

var MockApi = require('mock-api-server');
var api = new MockApi({"port": 7000});
api.reset(); // Or whatever you want to do.

See test/server_test.coffee for more detailed examples.

If you are using Mocha, you can also boot the server in a before clause. It's also possible to boot the server once at the beginning of the test suite.

Options

The MockApi supports the following options:

Canned Responses

Canned responses live in your project's test/mock-api directory. This directory and its subdirectories has the same structure as your API. For example, to serve an endpoint /v2/foobizzle, populate the file test/mock-api/GET/v2/foobizzle.json.

Responding to HTTP Methods

Files in the test/mock-api/GET subdirectory are used for GET requests. Files in test/mock-api/PUT subdirectory are used for PUT requests, and so forth.

Responding to Query Parameters

If you have these three files:

test/mock-api/GET/v2/foobizzle.json
test/mock-api/GET/v2/foobizzle.json?type=search
test/mock-api/GET/v2/foobizzle.json?type=search&s=foo

then mock-api-server will serve the third one when type=search and s=foo are provided as query parameters. If only type=search is provided, the second one will be served--mock-api-server will take the most specific matching file.

* can be used to match zero or more characters. For example, the following file:

test/mock-api/GET/v2/foobizzle.json?type=*search*

Will match requests with a query parameter type containing a value "search" or "index,search" or "search,index".

Note that most shells will interpret ?, *, and &, so to create these files, you will have to backslash them. For example:

$ touch test/mock-api/GET/v2/foobizzle.json\?type=\*search\*\&s=foo

Live Responses

You can tell the API server to respond to a particular request like so:

api.respondTo('/foo/bar').with({status: 'OK', headers: {'access-control-allow-origin': '*'}});

This will be active until the next time api.reset() is called.

You can modify an existing response with:

api.respondTo('/foo/bar').byReplacing('foo.bar[1].baz').with([ 76 ]);