How to use the mock exchange

In this document, we'll show how the configure and extend the mock exchange to generate synthetic bids that can be useful in the context of a test environment for staging changes, test stability and performance.

Components

As it names implies, the mock exchange simulate an actual exchange. It relies on a BidSource to produce bids and on a WinSource to produce wins and other optional events. Thus, both bid serving and ad serving part of the stack were merged into a single unique entity. This seems like a reasonable simplification in this situation.

Bid and win sources comes in many flavour and mirror the available exchange and adserver connector that are present in RTBkit. In most cases, authoring a connector should include its corresponding source to enable its usage with the mock exchange.

For example, the OpenRTBExchangeConnector has a corresponding OpenRTBBidSource to produce bids in a format that match the protocol expected by the exchange connector.

Bid Source

Writing a bid source is pretty straitforward and is tied to the.