Mock Rest Server Response for Unit Testing

Question

In integration testing, I use a real remote server to consume REST APIs. What's the simplest way to provide those responses within a unit test w/o depending on external entity.

One possible approach is to build

public class TestHttpResponse implements   org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse

override

 @Override
    public StatusLine getStatusLine() {
      return new StatusLine() {
        @Override
        public ProtocolVersion getProtocolVersion() {
          return null;
        }

        @Override
        public int getStatusCode() {
          return statusCode;
        }

        @Override
        public String getReasonPhrase() {
          return reasonPhrase;
        }
      };
    }
   ...

Is there a simpler and better way for mocking REST API response payloads?

have you tried to use apiary? https://apiary.io/ it has mocks option — Oscar Gallardo, Apr 11 '17 at 15:51
looks like commercial. i wanted simple code which be hooked up in UT. Do you have example of using it in your UT? — Rockoder, Apr 12 '17 at 17:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '17 at 16:49

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I'm a fan of Mockito for this purpose:

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/Mockito/article.html#testing-with-mock-objects

The nice part about Mockito is how you can control it's behavior dynamically.

answered Apr 11 '17 at 16:49

Sean Yunt

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