go-vcr
Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests (by dnaeon)
go-gitlab
GitLab Go SDK (by xanzy)
| go-vcr | go-gitlab | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | |
| 1,095 | 2,265 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 5.0 | 9.3 | |
| 8 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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
go-gitlab
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-gitlab.
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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Examples of well designed API wrappers?
You could take a look at https://github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab
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Testing calls to external APIs
I list my Gitlab projects with https://github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab, and in a test I wrote for the method listing and displaying my projects, I create a mock http server, that responds by returning the json response of a call to the Gitlab API.
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Utility library, most gopher way for namespaces/packages
I took note of other examples like https://github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab/blob/master/gitlab.go which use a similar approach (just with an additional client class). Is that a better approach? Having a "Client" that acts as a wrapper for different tool implementations?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-vcr and go-gitlab you can also consider the following projects:
testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database
gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽
Gauge - Light weight cross-platform test automation
gotaskr - A generic task runner for Go
ginkgo - A Modern Testing Framework for Go
gofight - Testing API Handler written in Golang.
gomega - Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
httpmock - HTTP mocking for Golang
frisby - API testing framework inspired by frisby-js
GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing
embedded-postgres - Run a real Postgres database locally on Linux, OSX or Windows as part of another Go application or test
go-mutesting - Mutation testing for Go source code