faker

A Clojure library for generating fake HTTP requests for Ring.

Faker is a negative word, but it's still cool.

• Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok from SK Telecom T1

Installation

A deployed copy of the most recent version of faker can be found on clojars. To use it, add the following as a dependency in your project.clj file:

The next time you build your application, Leiningen should pull it automatically. Alternatively, you may clone or fork the repository to work with it directly.

Usage

All functions necessary to generate requests are provided in the core namespace. To create a fake request, simply specify the HTTP method and resource you'd like to access:

(:require [faker.core :as faker])

(def get-request
  (faker/mock-request :get "/v1/resource"))

;; => {:protocol "HTTP/1.1",
;;    :server-port 8080,
;;    :server-name "localhost",
;;    :remote-addr "127.0.0.1",
;;    :uri "/v1/resource",
;;    :scheme :http,
;;    :request-method :get,
;;    :headers {"host" "localhost:8080"}}

This request is ready to pass directly to your Ring server for testing. Since your application's middleware and routes are highly configurable, the mock-request function also accepts an optional map to customize the request. The following options are supported:

Option	Default Value	Description
:protocol	"HTTP/1.1"	The HTTP protocol version of the generated request
:scheme	:http	The URI request scheme to use
:hostname	"localhost"	The hostname to embed in the URI
:port	Inferred based on :scheme	The port number to embed in the URI
:custom-route?	false	A flag to determine if resource should be treated as a fully qualified route. When false, generate a URI from the scheme, hostname, port, and resource
:headers	{}	A map of HTTP headers to add on to the request
:cookies	{}	A map of HTTP cookies to add on to the request
:content-type	Inferred based on :body-type	The HTTP content type the request should be sent with. Defaults to application/json for body-type :json, application/xml for body-type :xml, application/x-www-form-urlencoded for body-type :form. For body-type inferred, rely on content-type detection in ring-mock
:content-length	Inferred based on :body	The HTTP content length in bytes for the request. If body-type != :raw, ring-mock will calculate this value for you.
:body-type	:inferred	The keyword type of content in the request body, which is used to determine how to serialize EDN into the appropriate content-type and to set the content-type Expects one of :raw, :xml, :json, :form, :inferred. For :raw, assoc the body onto the request as is For :json, serialize the body with cheshire and set content-type to application/json For :xml, serialize the body with clojure.data.xml and set content-type to application/xml For :form, serialize the body as with ring-mock and set content-type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded For :inferred, use the automatic parsing in ring-mock and have it set the appropriate content-type
:body	nil	The body of the HTTP request to serialize according to body-type
:query-parameters	{}	A map of query parameters to encode and add onto the request.

For example:

(faker/mock-request :get "/" {:headers   {"auth" "my-secure-token"}
                              :body-type :json
                              :body      {:key 123}
                              :scheme    :https})

;; => {:protocol "HTTP/1.1",
;;     :remote-addr "127.0.0.1",
;;     :headers {"host" "localhost:443", "content-type" "application/json", "content-length" "11", "auth" "my-secure-token"},
;;     :server-port 443,
;;     :content-length 11,
;;     :content-type "application/json",
;;     :uri "/",
;;     :server-name "localhost",
;;     :body #object[java.io.ByteArrayInputStream 0x1f314cee "java.io.ByteArrayInputStream@1f314cee"],
;;     :scheme :https,
;;     :request-method :get}

Since most applications will use standard HTTP methods, several aliased versions exist. These functions support the exact same options as mock-request

(faker/get "/" {:headers   {"auth" "my-secure-token"}
                :body-type :json
                :body      {:key 123}
                :scheme    :https})

;; => {:protocol "HTTP/1.1",
;;     :remote-addr "127.0.0.1",
;;     :headers {"host" "localhost:443", "content-type" "application/json", "content-length" "11", "auth" "my-secure-token"},
;;     :server-port 443,
;;     :content-length 11,
;;     :content-type "application/json",
;;     :uri "/",
;;     :server-name "localhost",
;;     :body #object[java.io.ByteArrayInputStream 0x1f314cee "java.io.ByteArrayInputStream@1f314cee"],
;;     :scheme :https,
;;     :request-method :get}

Currently supported methods are:

• GET
• HEAD
• PUT
• DELETE
• CONNECT
• OPTIONS
• TRACE
• PATCH

Each of these HTTP methods corresponds 1:1 with a lowercase function name in faker.core

This library currently does not attempt to coerce requests or enforce HTTP standards and best practices on generated requests. For example, you may create a GET request with a body. This can be helpful when writing middleware/handlers for malformed, malicious, or unusual requests.

Licensing

Copyright © 2020-2022 Nick Nichols

Distributed under the MIT License

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TODO

• Stand up a Ring server in tests, and test normal consumption
• Support Transit protocol for EDN