go-vcr vs httpmock

go-vcr

Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests (by dnaeon)

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HTTP mocking for Golang (by jarcoal)

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go-vcr		httpmock
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6	Mentions	5
1,013	Stars	1,676
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	3.9
3 months ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
Go	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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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.

Testing calls to external APIs
3 projects | /r/golang | 9 Dec 2022

Mocking the http client using recorded responses; for example using dnaeon/go-vcr
How I write offline API tests in Go
2 projects | /r/golang | 7 Nov 2022

For example I see go-vcr (note: not mine), but haven't taken time yet to evaluate it.
go-vcr v3 has been released
2 projects | /r/golang | 19 Aug 2022

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.
What are you using for testing your IAC?
3 projects | /r/devops | 1 Dec 2021

Terraform providers are tested this way (separate cloud account w/ create/destroy) paired with VCR to record and replay the HTTP requests.
Go Package for testing HTTP interactions: github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr
2 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2021

Let me introduce to you github.com/dnaeon/go-vcr.
best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
4 projects | /r/golang | 15 Mar 2021

dnaeon/go-vcr

httpmock

Posts with mentions or reviews of httpmock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.

[Rant] Sa Isi Bage Microserviciile in C*R
2 projects | /r/programare | 10 Sep 2022
Integration tests with Go and testcontainers
6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2022

We will use httpmock for this purpose. Inside function setupSuite(), where we created useCase and provided nil as a billingClient now we will pass mocked http client:
best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
4 projects | /r/golang | 15 Mar 2021

To mock an API: https://github.com/jarcoal/httpmock to use when your code calls external APIs so you don't want your tests call the real API. No need to create an interface as you do.