gomock
GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. (by golang)
go-sqlmock
Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions (by DATA-DOG)
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Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
gomock
Posts with mentions or reviews of gomock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
- Maintainership of Go’s official gomock repo has been transferred to Uber.
- Uber Now Maintains Gomock
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Google Stopped Maintaining GoMock
The commit mentions this rather sad thread: https://github.com/golang/mock/pull/627#issuecomment-1605169...
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Tools besides Go for a newbie
IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here
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When to mock and what to mock in a Web API?
Normally I like to generate everything with Mockgen and test it using table driven test.
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Is gomock still maintained and recommended?
Looking at gomock's commit history, it seems like there hasn't been much activity on the project in a couple of years. I'm wondering if this is the case of software being mostly done and just in maintenance mode, or if gomock is falling behind. The reason I fear for the latter is there are still issues being opened up that don't seem to be engaged very much.
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Want to know if this is a valid approach
Yeah, that would work just fine. Nevertheless, as your business logic gets more complicated, you will want to test more scenarios and mocks will get complicated fast. In these cases tools like gomock really shine and make your life easier. I understand that this is a just-for-fun project, but it's never too early to experiment with a popular solution, especially if you plan on using Go professionally in the future.
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Go API Project Set-Up
Unit tests are leveraged to test individual units of code. As such it is not recommended for a developer to scaffold entire dependencies for the sake of testing a single object. Due to the way Go's specific implementations work, I've learned over time to declare interfaces for a lot of the structs that I use in Go. Interfaces not only define a contract for which struct-based implementations should adhere, but they also provide a mechanism for which struct methods can be mocked. While I've experimented with the mock package in testify, I've come to prefer the mock functionality which is provided by mockgen.
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Comprehensive Guide to Testing in Go
gomock can also be great for testing when used sparingly. Mocking out one or two calls is great, anymore than that and it becomes exponentially harder to reason about
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Google's internal Go style guide
Where we do use mocks, we primarily use GoMock.
go-sqlmock
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-sqlmock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-24.
- How do you unit-test code that reaches out to the db, without introducing interfaces everywhere?
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Creating an API using Go and sqlc
For that, I used the lib go-sqlmock. So, for example, the following snippet is part of the person/service_test.go file:
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Using SQLC in project how do I mock database Calls with it for unit testing?
It's not the right call IMO to skip mocking the database connection to achieve 100% test coverage. How your app will behave in failure scenarios that are impossible to imitate during integration tests is part of the software contract. If your choice is to panic, or return an error, document that by testing that behavior. If another dev, or future you inadvertently breaks the contract, the test suite will fail. That's what you want. For unit tests against your database you should be using either go-sqlmock if testing against database/sql or pgxmock if testing against pgx. That being said, the points raised elsewhere in this thread regarding unit tests potentially hiding edge cases in terms of how an actual database will interact with your application that are not reflective of your understanding when writing mocks are 100% valid. You should do both. Unit test your app and write integration tests as well. On my team, we run integration tests using docker-compose.
- What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
- How to mock database calls
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Can you set expectations for SQL transaction using Testify?
I use Sqlmock for that purpose
- Mocking database queries - ask for opinion
- SQL mock driver for Golang to test database interactions
- Can't get a specifc SQL query with pgx to work
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[HELP] how to test this piece of code?
There is a good lib for db tests https://github.com/DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gomock and go-sqlmock you can also consider the following projects:
mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Go
go-txdb - Immutable transaction isolated sql driver for golang
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
pgx - PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go
gock - HTTP traffic mocking and testing made easy in Go ༼ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༽
sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql
minimock - Powerful mock generation tool for Go programming language
counterfeiter - A tool for generating self-contained, type-safe test doubles in go
gotests - Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code.
monkey - Monkey patching in Go
tidb-lite - Using tidb-lite to create a TiDB server with mocktikv mode in your application or unit test.