gock
HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽ (by h2non)
hoverfly
Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool for developers and testers (by SpectoLabs)
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| gock | hoverfly | |
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| 10 | 4 | |
| 2,014 | 2,307 | |
| - | 0.6% | |
| 3.4 | 8.7 | |
| 4 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
gock
Posts with mentions or reviews of gock.
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 with explicit responses; for example using h2non/gock
- What features would you consider missing/nice to haves for backend web development in Rust?
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Mock HTTP response
Check out gock.
- API Mock Testing Frameworks
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Testing methods with HTTP calls?
h2non/gock and
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Go Package for Mocking HTTP Traffic: github.com/h2non/gock
Last time I covered testing in Go I mentioned a package used for testing equality called github.com/google/go-cmp, this time I will share with you a way to mock HTTP traffic using the package github.com/h2non/gock.
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HTTP mocking
If you need a good library for mocking http servers https://github.com/h2non/gock does a great job.
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best way to mock/unit test http.Client?
github.com/h2non/gock
- How to mock `jwk.Fetch` in my unit tests?
- Has anyone here compiled DroneCI from scratch?
hoverfly
Posts with mentions or reviews of hoverfly.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
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We created WireMock, an API platform that is designed to improve developer productivity and enables developers and testers to Mock APIs in every stage of the API lifecycle
Use https://github.com/SpectoLabs/hoverfly
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Review: 10 Top API Mock Tools
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.
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What happens when a plugin/VST is no longer supported?
Depending how robust their check in is, you could intercept and emulate the reply with something like hoverfly too.
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API Mock Testing Frameworks
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gock and hoverfly you can also consider the following projects:
httpmock - HTTP mocking for Golang
gomock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.
go-sqlmock - Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions
mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Go
govcr - HTTP mock for Golang: record and replay HTTP/HTTPS interactions for offline testing
mockit - Library that make mocking of Go functions/methods easy
httpexpect - End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.
go-txdb - Immutable transaction isolated sql driver for golang
go-localstack - Go Wrapper for using localstack