Playback-Api

Purpose

To replay sets of test data for automated test evaluation of the final output of headless deamons, scripts, etc.. that POST to an external API with no testing/staging/sandbox environment.

• Takes an xml based POST (and variants e.g. application/atom+xml) and saves it to an in-memory data store
• POSTed data can be played back from the /test/:testId endpoint for evaluation; data is expected to be keyed to a given run of the test suite
  • (TODO: how to key data sets? app version, TeamCity build #, Environment Var, ???)

Usage

npm start spins up the server listening on the listenPort value in config

testId as a URL parameter in the routes refers to a given run of the acceptance test suite; all test data should be grouped together for any single run of the test suite

Routes:

• /test/:testId POST/GET/DELETE data corresponding to a testId
  • POST: append data to this testId
  • GET: return list of data POSTed under this testId
  • DELETE: delete the list of data under this testId
• /test/all DELETE all data in memory

TODO:

• Cap the node-cache total size to something reasonable
• Parse non-xml inputs