mock-server 0.3.9

Simple mock server for REST API

Mock server

Simple mock server for REST and XML-RPC API

It can mock GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and some more rarely used HTTP methods.

Build status at Travis CI:

DEMO

http://demo.mockapi.org/__manage

Installation

Install with pip:

$ pip install mock-server

Or install with easy_install:

$ easy_install mock-server

And after run:

$ mock-server --dir=/path/to/api

It will be listening on port 8888 and wait for your HTTP requests.

Overview

For create mock for url path go to:

http://localhost:8888/__manage/create

Mocked GET /user/tom:

$ curl -v -X GET http://demo.mockapi.org/user/tom

> GET /user/tom HTTP/1.1
> Host: demo.mockapi.org
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 64
< Server: TornadoServer/2.4.1
<
{
    "name": "Tom",
    "surname": "Smith",
    "age": 22
}

Features

• Mocking REST API.

• Mocking RPC API (xml, json).

• Upstream server proxy (proxy an existing api).

• Variables in url path.

• Simple api documentation (markdown).

• Api authentication (HTTP Basic authentication).

Release new version

https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/

Format

response content format: %METHOD%_%STATUS%.%FORMAT%

response headers format: %METHOD%_H_%STATUS%.%FORMAT%

root_dir/
    GET_200.json         # response content for GET /
    GET_H_200.json       # headers for GET /
    user/
        DELETE_404.xml   # response content for DELETE /user.xml?__statusCode=404
        POST_200.json    # response content for POST /user
        POST_H_200.json  # headers for POST /user

Bug report

If you have any trouble, report bug at GitHub Issue https://github.com/tomashanacek/mock-server/issues

Contributors

William Zhang

History

0.3.9

• fix unicode 500 error

• fix grammar when API does not exist

Many thanks to @bopo and @krmaxwell

0.3.8

• fix http util when returning HTTPHeaders instance

• fix Tornado version

• Python 2.7 and 3.4 compatibility

Many thanks to @eduardosan and @winkidney

0.3.7

• support for custom response provider

0.3.6

• support for non-standard status codes

0.3.5

• added num_processes command line option for possibility to start multiple worker processes

0.3.4

• edit rpc method fix

0.3.3

• create resource quotation character fix

0.3.2

• todo escaping fix

0.3.1

• support for todos in api documentation

• access log improvements

0.3

• upstream server proxy (proxy an existing api)

• variables in url path

• simple api documentation (markdown)

• api authentication (HTTP Basic authentication)

• manage interface improvements

No notes on earlier releases.