fastapi-mock 0.2.3

A middleware for FastAPI that allows you to create mock endpoints quickly and easily.

FastAPI Mock

A middleware for FastAPI that allows you to create mock endpoints quickly and easily.

Installation

Install the package using pip:

pip install fastapi-mock

NOTE: FastAPI Mock requires Python 3.11+ and FastAPI working with Pydanctic 2.

Usage

Here, we'll explore how to use FastAPI Mock by creating a FastAPI application, adding middleware, and raising MockExceptions. Note that we'll be using the MockException and MockMiddleware classes from the FastAPI Mock.

Let's define our FastAPI application:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi_mock import MockMiddleware, MockException
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()

app.add_middleware(MockMiddleware)  # add middleware as class, not instance


class ResponseModel(BaseModel):
    message: str


@app.get("/mock-endpoint")
def mock():
    # instead of ResponseModel, you can use any type annotation that is supported by FastAPI Mock.
    raise MockException(ResponseModel, status_code=200)

In the above code, we define a FastAPI application, add the MockMiddleware to handle the MockExceptions, and define a GET endpoint at /mock-endpoint. When the endpoint function is called, it raises a MockException with ResponseModel set as the response model and 200 as the status code.

If you hit the endpoint /mock-endpoint, you'll see the mock data: just

{
  "message": "Hello, World ❤️"
}

NOTE: FastAPI Mock can process not only basic types, but list, tuple, set, dict, enum.Enum generic types and UnionTypo too. Also, it will resolve response models recursively, so you can define nested models.

Advanced Usage

Now we'll look at a more advanced usage of FastAPI Mock, including defining examples in the response model's JSON schema, utilizing field examples and defaults, configuring middleware with the custom provider for int and str types.

Examples in JSON Schema

FastAPI Mock will choose a random example from the examples list in the response model's JSON schema.

Let's try it out:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi_mock import MockMiddleware, MockException
from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict

app = FastAPI()

app.add_middleware(MockMiddleware)


class ResponseModel(BaseModel):
    message: str

    model_config = ConfigDict(json_schema_extra={
        "examples": [
            {
                "message": "My name is (chka-chka, Slim Shady) - Eminem"
            }
        ]
    })


@app.get("/mock-endpoint")
def mock():
    raise MockException(ResponseModel)

The default status code is 200, so we don't need to specify it. Now, if you hit the endpoint /mock-endpoint, you'll see the mock data:

{
  "message": "My name is (chka-chka, Slim Shady) - Eminem"
}

Field Examples and Defaults

FastAPI Mock will iterate through the fields in the response model and choose a random example (or default) from the field info.

Here's an example:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi_mock import MockMiddleware, MockException
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

app = FastAPI()

app.add_middleware(MockMiddleware)


class ResponseModel(BaseModel):
    field_with_examples: str = Field(examples=["I", "Love", "Python"])
    field_with_default: str = Field(default="I ❤️ Python")
    field_with_default_factory: str = Field(default_factory=lambda: "I ❤️ Python\n" * 3)


@app.get("/mock-endpoint")
def mock():
    raise MockException(ResponseModel)

Now, if you hit the endpoint /mock-endpoint, you'll see the mock data:

{
  "field_with_examples": "Love",
  "field_with_default": "I ❤️ Python",
  "field_with_default_factory": "I ❤️ Python\nI ❤️ Python\nI ❤️ Python\n"
}

PRIORITY: The examples from the JSON schema have higher priority than the field examples. Moreover, the field examples have higher priority than the field defaults.

Custom Provider

FastAPI Mock uses the constant examples for str, random examples for int and float, bool by default. However, you can configure the middleware to use your own provider for any of basic types.

For example, let's configure the middleware to use the faker library for str type:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi_mock import MockMiddleware, MockException, ExampleProvider
from pydantic import BaseModel
from faker import Faker # pip install faker

app = FastAPI()
fake = Faker()

app.add_middleware(
    MockMiddleware, 
    example_provider=ExampleProvider(
        providers={
            str: lambda: fake.sentence()
        }
    )
)


class ResponseModel(BaseModel):
    message: str


@app.get("/mock-endpoint")
def mock():
    raise MockException(ResponseModel)

Now, if you hit the endpoint /mock-endpoint, you'll see the random mock data:

{
  "message": "Some random sentence."
}