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The built-in Faraday Test adapter lets you define stubbed HTTP requests. This can be used to mock out network services in an application's unit tests.
The easiest way to do this is to create the stubbed requests when initializing
a Faraday::Connection
. Stubbing a request by path yields a block with a
Faraday::Env
object. The stub block expects an Array return value with three
values: an Integer HTTP status code, a Hash of key/value headers, and a
response body.
conn = Faraday.new do |builder|
builder.adapter :test do |stub|
# block returns an array with 3 items:
# - Integer response status
# - Hash HTTP headers
# - String response body
stub.get('/ebi') do |env|
[
200,
{ 'Content-Type': 'text/plain', },
'shrimp'
]
end
# test exceptions too
stub.get('/boom') do
raise Faraday::ConnectionFailed, nil
end
end
end
You can define the stubbed requests outside of the test adapter block:
stubs = Faraday::Adapter::Test::Stubs.new do |stub|
stub.get('/tamago') { |env| [200, {}, 'egg'] }
end
This Stubs instance can be passed to a new Connection:
conn = Faraday.new do |builder|
builder.adapter :test, stubs do |stub|
stub.get('/ebi') { |env| [ 200, {}, 'shrimp' ]}
end
end
It's also possible to stub additional requests after the connection has been initialized. This is useful for testing.
stubs.get('/uni') { |env| [ 200, {}, 'urchin' ]}
Finally, you can treat your stubs as mocks by verifying that all of the stubbed calls were made. NOTE: this feature is still fairly experimental. It will not verify the order or count of any stub.
stubs.verify_stubbed_calls
After the test case is completed (possibly in an after
hook), you should clear
the default connection to prevent it from being cached between different tests.
This allows for each test to have its own set of stubs
Faraday.default_connection = nil
Working RSpec and test/unit examples for a fictional JSON API client are available.