api-compose 0.0.17

A Framework for orchestrating, asserting and reporting on API calls with templates

Installation

PyPI Package

pip install api-compose

Get Started

# creates a sample project for you to build on
acp scaffold <your_project_name>

Run the programme

acp run

• Explore the CLI’s capabilities by running acp or acp –help

Examples

• Examples are in ./examples folder

API Examples

Features

Declaration-based API Call Composition

• Allows API calls to be declared as Models.

• Distinguishes between Compile Time Rendering and Run Time Rendering

• Leverages networkx to determine the execution order of each API call.

• Exposes decorator @FunctionsRegistry to for users to register user-defined jinja functions (Globals, Filters and Tests)

Useful Builtin Jinja Globals

Builtin Jinja Globals allow users to specify which part (e.g. headers, body etc.) of an API action (e.g. login, get_images etc.) to use.

## Get the value of the field field_one of the returned body from the login_action API call
{{ action('login_action')| output_body| jpath('$.field_one') }}

## Get the value of the field field_one of the input headers from the login_action API call
{{ action('login_action')| input_headers | jpath('$.field_one') }}

## Get the rendered body of the current API call
{{ action('self')| config_body }}

Supported API Calls Type - Adapters

• Below is the table which breaks down the type of API Call by

  • Protocol (Column)

  • Data Format (Row)

	HTTP	WebSocket	FIX
json	True	WIP	TBD
xml	True	TBD	TBD

• WIP means Working in Progress. It means it is being worked on now.

• TBD means to be determined. It means it will be planned in the future.

Schema Validation

• Leverages jsonschema and xmlschema to validate returned json and xml data respectively.

Assertion

• Allows users to use Jinja to make assertions between API Calls Result

# assert that value of a the field 'field_one' in the output body of action 'action_one' equals 1
{{ action('action_one')| output_body| jpath('$.field_one') == 1 }}

# assert that value of a the field 'field_one' in the output body of action 'action_one' equals 'a'
{{ action('action_two')| output_body| xpath('/field_one/text()') == 'a' }}

Reporting

• Presents Test Results nicely in HTML reports

Architectural Diagram

The above is the Programme Architecture.

Lucid Chart here: https://lucid.app/lucidchart/f8d1f9f9-bc93-46ec-8e4f-6561a4c822c3/edit?beaconFlowId=70D4EDD3B7971E6C&invitationId=inv_c7b45baf-050c-480b-923e-2979440ce4c8&page=0_0#

Hierarchical structure of the models

Lucid Chart here: https://lucid.app/lucidchart/f8d1f9f9-bc93-46ec-8e4f-6561a4c822c3/edit?beaconFlowId=70D4EDD3B7971E6C&invitationId=inv_c7b45baf-050c-480b-923e-2979440ce4c8&page=p0OVapsRWlkY#

Jinja Templating

Compile Time Rendering

• To make templates reusable, the programme exposes the means to render template files using the below syntax:

block_start_string='[%'
block_end_string='%]'
variable_start_string='[['
variable_end_string=']]'
comment_start_string='[#'
comment_end_string='#]'

Run Time Rendering

• To allow for inter-API Call dependencies within a given scenario, the programme also exposes the means to render templated fields using the below syntax:

block_start_string='{%'
block_end_string='%}'
variable_start_string='{{'
variable_end_string='}}'
comment_start_string='{#'
comment_end_string='#}'

Config File

File name is config.yaml

# Generate config.yaml
acp cfg init