Parrot

Parrot is a mock service which allows us to mock any server or service.

This is useful in the following scenarios:

• With fast, local setup of microservices APIs
• Automated testing of FE components
• Automated testing in isolation of the system-under-test to ensure tests run reliably and only fail when there is a genuine bug.

The service works the following way:

• Find matching template and return the json repsonse
• If no matching template is found , based on template configuration proxy the request and get response
• If no proxy header attribute is set return a error code with error message
• Reply with static or dynamic JSON or XML Payload

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the following technologies and frameworks

• Java8
• SprintBoot
• Drools Rules Engine
• Spring Data JPA REST

About / Synopsis

• Spin up a light weight spring boot based mock service

Installation

• From command line ./gradlew bootRun

Build

• gradlew clean build

How to Setup

• Create a folder named templates
• Create a template file with extension .temp
• Create a json file , a sample response file to be served by the rest end points with .json extension
• Move the json file and template file to the folder templates