feat: add utility functions for unit testing

ibm/unittest/utils.go

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+// Copyright IBM Corp. 2024 All Rights Reserved.
+// Licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0
+
+package unittest
+
+import (
+	"github.com/IBM/go-sdk-core/v5/core"
+	"github.com/go-openapi/strfmt"
+)
+
+//
+// Utility functions used by the resource/data source unit tests.
+//
+
+func CreateMockUUID(mockData string) *strfmt.UUID {
+	uuid := strfmt.UUID(mockData)
+	return &uuid
+}
+
+func CreateMockByteArray(mockData string) *[]byte {
+	ba := []byte(mockData)
+	return &ba
+}
+
+func CreateMockDate(mockData string) *strfmt.Date {
+	d, err := core.ParseDate(mockData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return &d
+}
+
+func CreateMockDateTime(mockData string) *strfmt.DateTime {
+	d, err := core.ParseDateTime(mockData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return &d
+}