writing-mock-apis.md

Writing mock apis

1. Create a mockapi.ts file next to the main.tsp of the scenario
2. Create and export a variable called Scenarios with a Record<string, ScenarioMockApi> type
3. For each of the scenario assign a new property to the Scenarios variable. The value use one of the following:
   • passOnSuccess: This will take one or multiple routes and will only pass teh scenario if all the routes gets called with a 2xx success code.

Example

import { passOnSuccess, mockapi } from "@azure-tools/cadl-ranch-api";
import { ScenarioMockApi } from "@azure-tools/cadl-ranch-api";

export const Scenarios: Record<string, ScenarioMockApi> = {};

Scenarios.Hello_world = passOnSuccess(
  mockapi.get("/hello/world", () => {
    return {
      status: 200,
      body: {
        contentType: "application/json",
        rawContent: `"Hello World!"`,
      },
    };
  }),
);

How to build response

Return the response object. See type

// Minimum requirement is the status code.
return {
  status: 200,
};

Return a body

// Return json
return {
  status: 200,
  body: json({ foo: 123 }),
};

// Return raw content
return {
  status: 200,
  body: {
    contentType: "application/text",
    rawContent: "foobar",
  },
};

Return headers

// Return json
return {
  status: 200,
  headers: {
      MyHeader: "value-1"
      MyHeaderOther: req.headers.MyRequestHeader
  }
};

How to validate the request:

All built-in validation tools can be accessed using req.expect.

Validate the body

• With req.expect.bodyEquals

This will do a deep equals of the body to make sure it match.

app.post("/example", "Example", (req) => {
  req.bodyEquals({ foo: "123", bar: "456" });
});

• With req.expect.rawBodyEquals

This will compare the raw body sent.

app.post("/example", "Example", (req) => {
  req.rawBodyEquals('"foo"');
});

Custom validation

You can do any kind of validation accessing the req: MockRequest object and deciding to return a different response in some cases. You can also always throw a ValidationError

Example:

app.post("/example", "Example", (req) => {
  if (req.headers.MyCustomHeader.startsWith("x-foo")) {
    throw new ValidationError("MyCustomHeader shouldn't start with x-foo", null, req.headers.MyCustomHeader);
  }
});