monkey VS hoverfly

Code that's hard to test is just bad code. And unlike most dynamic languages you can't just override some internals in Go (though there are some arcane hacks you can pull of but only at full moon https://github.com/bouk/monkey).

This person did not read the license of the original library https://github.com/bouk/monkey/blob/master/LICENSE.md

I am a new gopher. I was looking into the Monkey Patching module and it is archived now. I was wondering if there is an alternative for that.

Here is an example of this in Go - but as he says, don't actually do this. https://github.com/bouk/monkey

I discovered this lib a few days ago. https://github.com/bouk/monkey it allows you to monkey patch entire functions, replacing them by whatever you want. Perfect for mocking. It's simple to use. The program is hard patching the code using assembly to replace the function address at runtime. You should not use this lib out of your tests since it's absolutely not safe. It's only compatible with linux and windows. But it works great!

Use https://github.com/SpectoLabs/hoverfly

Hoverfly is an open-source tool for mocking and simulating APIs. It is relatively easy to use and has a wide range of features for mocking and simulating APIs, including support for importing and exporting mock configurations, generating random data for responses, and setting up conditional responses based on the contents of incoming requests.

Depending how robust their check in is, you could intercept and emulate the reply with something like hoverfly too.

What is your recommendation? Is there one widely used in the Golang community? I have come across hoverfly, but I wanted to have a few to perform a good benchmark exercise. Thanks