Mock API

The backend mocking application.

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This web app is designed to help front end developers build out their code using a real API backend which is completley configurable. You simply add the path to your API call (e.g. /people/{id}), the HTTP Method (e.g. GET) and the status code you want the backend to respond with (e.g. OK or 200) and MockAPI will give you the response body you told it to as application/json.

Set up

Warning: This application does not compile with Mono

You will need:

• .NET 4.6
• Visual Studio 2015 (comes with .NET 4.6)
• IIS (Only if you need to use SSL)

Clone this repository and open the solution in Visual Studio. Hit Ctrl+F5 to start IIS Express (should open a browser pointing to http://localhost:51680) and you're good to go!

How it works

When you run the application, you will see that it takes you to a Settings page. This is where you add your route settings. Once you've added some routes, you can then make requests to the application. For example:

If you add a route /users/{id}, with a response status code of OK (200), a HTTP method of GET and a response body that looks like this -

{
    "result": {
        "user": "Jack Daniel"
    }
}

Then make a request to GET http://localhost:51680/users/123 and you will get the JSON payload exactly as you entered it. This works by using an variation of the Dice Coefficient Algorithm to fuzzy match routes when url parameters are used.

Supported HTTP Methods

The following HTTP methods are supported:

• GET
• PUT
• POST
• DELETE

POST and PUT methods

The request body is ignored when using POST and PUT HTTP methods. In order to test the API endpoints, I recommend using the chrome app postman.

Changing the expected status code

If you wanted to test your application code with responses other than 200 OK then you can make a copy of the route setting and change the Status Code to something else, e.g. Bad Request (400). To get this response, simply add the ?status=400 or ?status=BadRequest query string parameter to your request. Using the example above, the request url would look like /users/123?stats=400, which would return the response body you entered with the status code of 400.

The database

MockAPI uses an embedded data store called LiteDB which is never checked into the remote repository. If you need to inspect the data in your database, you can use the shell executable found in the /bin/ directory. Note: Don't use the exe in the root as this will not know where the LiteDB.dll file is and will fall over!

TODO

• Unit and Integration tests