README.md

HTTP Mock

The httpmock is a simple mocking library to mock the golang http client response.

Its intent is to reduce the boiler plate code required to write the unit test where a unit of code to test is wrapping the http.Client or passing http.Client as a dependency.

Usage

1. Execute the go get github.com/hrishin/httpmock

2. Let's mock the response for GET /foo request which return the HTTP 200 OK response with some response body content

   import (
       "testing"
       "github.com/hrishin/httpmock"
   )
   
   
   func Test_some_test(t *testing.T) { // I prefer using _ as convention(readability)
   
       mockResponse := httpmock.Response{
           URI:        "/foo",
           StatusCode: 200,
           Body:       "bar response",
       }
   
       api := &someAPI{
           client: httpmock.Client(&mockResponse),
           API: "https://some.com/api/",
       }
   
       got := api.do()
   
       // assert got response from API
   }
   

In this example, someAPI is using http.Client as a dependency in order to execute the HTTP request for a given API URL.