grunt-mocker

Generating jquery mockjax mocks for RESTful services

Why

Because I can.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-mocker --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mocker');

The "mocker" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named mocker to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  mocker: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.template

Type: String

A path to the file with template of mocks (see template format below).

options.dest

Type: String

A path to the folder where mocks files will created in.

Template Format

[
  {
    entity: {entity_name},
    count: {count},
    data: 
    {
      {field_name}: {FieldType}
    }
  },
]

FieldType

Primitive values

String, NumberInt, NumberFloat, Boolean, Date. It will be generated random value with according type.

Values set

Use an array of allowable values to make mocker take random element from it.

For example:

"sortDirection": ["ASC", "DESC", "NONE"]

References to another entities

If an entity must refer to another entity, use following syntax:

*{referred_entity_name} - reference to referred_entity_name, it will taken random element of generated referred_entity_name.

*{referred_entity_name}.id - the same to previous but the only id of referred_entity_name element will taken.

[{count}]{referred_entity_name} - array (with the according length) of references to referred_entity_name elements, it will taken random elements of generated referred entity name-entities.

[{count}]{referred_entity_name}.id - the same to previous but the only id of referred_entity_name elements will taken.

For example:

{
  "entity": "computer",
  {
    "user": "*users",
    "userId": "*users.id",
    "users": "[5]users",
    "userIds": "[5]users.id"
  }
}

Usage Examples

Template

[
  {
    "entity": "products",
    "count": 3,
    "data": 
    {
      "name": "String",
      "price": "NumberFloat",
      "crearedAt": "Date",
      "sortDirection": ["ACS", "DESC", "NONE"],
      "groupId": "*groups.id"
    }
  },
  {
    "entity": "groups",
    "count": 3,
    "data": 
    {
      "name": "String",
      "open": "Boolean"
    }
  },
  {
    "entity": "user",
    "count": 2,
    "data": 
    {
      "firstName": "String",
      "lastName": "String",
      "groupIds" "[2]groups.id"
    }
  }
]

Result

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

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