go-vcr
Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests (by dnaeon)
videos
Slides and examples used for my training videos (by MarioCarrion)
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| 5.1 | 5.6 | |
| 10 days ago | 2 months ago | |
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| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
go-vcr
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-vcr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-09.
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Testing calls to external APIs
Mocking the http client using recorded responses; for example using dnaeon/go-vcr
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How I write offline API tests in Go
For example I see go-vcr (note: not mine), but haven't taken time yet to evaluate it.
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go-vcr v3 has been released
I've finally found some spare time and managed to work on go-vcr, fixed some long standing issues, refactored things here and there and was able to get a new version of the package.
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What are you using for testing your IAC?
Terraform providers are tested this way (separate cloud account w/ create/destroy) paired with VCR to record and replay the HTTP requests.
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Go Package for testing HTTP interactions: github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr
Let me introduce to you github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr.
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best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
dnaeon/go-vcr
videos
Posts with mentions or reviews of videos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
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Discussion: about "go install" versus brew when available
You can also do something similar with direnv for example (see 1 and 2); and even better if you use the tools.go paradigm then you can have different versions of your binaries relative to your project as well.
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How to generate translations for multiple packages inside same module
Example for reference.
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Go Package for testing HTTP interactions: github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr
Please refer to the full example code for more details.
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Go Package for Mocking HTTP Traffic: github.com/h2non/gock
There's a simple CLI tool I built for requesting OpenWeather information using their API, please refer to the final repository for actually running the full examples.
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Set struct in Redis
You don't mention what package you're using, but if you're using github.com/go-redis/redis/ you can marshal your struct using encoding/go and then use the SET and SET commands because for Redis everything is bytes, see https://github.com/MarioCarrion/videos/blob/main/2021/03/11-golang-microservices-caching-redis/redis.go I have video covering that exactly: https://youtu.be/wj6-w0DLKRw
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Building Microservices in Go: Accessing PostgreSQL Databases - Part 1
The full code example mentioned in this post is available on Github, please make sure to read the README for specifics.
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Building Microservices in Go: Caching using memcached
The code of the examples below are available on Github.
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Go Package for Equality: github.com/google/go-cmp
Below there are some code snippets, please refer to the final repository for actually running the complete code examples.
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Go Tools: For database schema migrations
Repository including the code example.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-vcr and videos you can also consider the following projects:
testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database
Memcached - memcached development tree
Gauge - Light weight cross-platform test automation
tern - The SQL Fan's Migrator
ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go
gobuffalo/pop - A Tasty Treat For All Your Database Needs
gofight - Testing API Handler written in Golang.
migrations - SQL database migrations for Golang go-pg and PostgreSQL
gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
go-database-sql-tutorial - A tutorial for Go's database/sql package
httpmock - HTTP mocking for Golang
gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽