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Cameleon is HTTP mock server framework based on Rack. You can easily create HTTP server for mockup or stub of external system for your application.
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 Dependencies

Development

>= 0
>= 3.5.0

Runtime

>= 2.7.0
>= 3.4.3
>= 1.8.3
>= 2.5.1
>= 1.6.6
>= 1.6.4
 Project Readme

Cameleon

Cameleon (not Chameleon!) is HTTP mock/stub server framework based on Rack. You can easily create HTTP server behaves as external system for your application.

All you have to do to create a new HTTP interface is simply make directory and put response file into the directory.

Features:

  • Easy to create new HTTP interfaces (only to create directory and put response file into it)
  • Simple API for "_switch.rb" (for selecting response file)
  • Communicate in JSON, XML or any other format over HTTP
  • Ready for RESTful API

Installation

You can install Cameleon using RubyGems as below:

$ gem install cameleon

Getting started

Create a new Cameleon project using 'cameleon new' command.

$ cameleon new your_project_name

Move to the directory and start cameleon server.

$ cd your_project_name
$ cameleon server

OK, your server is now running. Test your server using curl.

$ curl http://localhost:9292
Hey, I am cameleon!
Edit response folder to change response whatever you want.
see README.md more detail.

Usage

creating HTTP interface

Create HTTP interface such as:

  • URL: GET /path/to/interface
  • response: "ok"

Follow these lines:

$ mkdir -p response/path/to/interface
$ cd response/path/to/interface
$ echo "ok" > default.txt

Test the interface:

$ curl http://localhost:9292/path/to/interface
ok

generate command

You can also create a interface using "cameleon generate" command. To create a new interface "GET /path/to/foo", type:

$ cameleon generate path/to/foo

and test it.

$ curl http://localhost:9292/path/to/foo
edit me: response/path/to/foo/default

Edit the file as you need.

_switch.rb

Create "_switch.rb" in your response directory to change the response by HTTP request. "_switch.rb" is pure Ruby file. You can write any logic you need in Ruby.

_switch.rb

# you can access URL parameters by 'params'
case params[:key]
when "foo"
  # curl http://localhost:9292/gallery/params?key=foo
  render "foo.txt"
when "bar"
  # You can also use POST or PUT. See 'rest' more about hadling HTTP methods.
  # curl -XPOST http://localhost:9292/gallery/params -d"key=bar"
  render "bar.txt"
end

# if else, render "default" (any extention acceptable) file.

Call render method to select response file. When render called, evaluation of "_switch.rb" will be terminated and following code won't be interpreted.

RESTful URI

Cameleon supports RESTful URI (including path variable) such as:

http://localhost:9292/resource/${category_name}/${id}

To create such URI, create directory as:

response/resource/$category_name/$id

Directory that name start with '$' is placeholder of the URI. If directory name is '$category_name/$id' and URI 'fiction/12', 'fiction' and '12' are mapped into params['category_name'] and params['id']. Then in your _switch.rb or response(erb) file, you can use params['category_name'] and params['id'] to access the path variable.

Validation

Cameleon can validate HTTP request body. Currently JSON format is supported. If you want to validate your request to Cameleon, add 'validation' attribute and 'type' sub-attribute as 'json' into your 'cameleon.yml' config file.

port: 9292
validation:
  type: json

then put 'request.schema.json' into response directory. If your interface allows json request body like:

{"a": 1}

You should create 'request.schema.json' like:

{
  "type" : "object",
  "properties" : {
    "a" : {
      "type" : "integer",
      "required" : true
    }
  }
}

Cameleon uses json-schema gem as validation engine, and it's based on JSON Schema Draft 3. See json-schema for more detail.

Notice:

Cameleon validates request body only in POST or PUT http method.

initializer.rb : Setup for _switch.rb

To use some libraries or your own modules on your _switch.rb, cameleon load initializer.rb on boot-time. You can write some code inside Cameleon::setup scope.

Cameleon::setup do |config|
  require 'some_library'
  config.foo = 'FOO'
end

config object can be referred as Cameleon.config in _switch.rb.

Cameleon.config.foo #=> 'FOO'

Gallery

Create various samples using "cameleon gallery" command.

$ cd YOUR_CAMELEON_HOME
$ cameleon gallery

Check out response/gallery directory and "_switch.rb" to know some usage of APIs.

License

Cameleon is released under the MIT license.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 - 2015 daisuke sugimori (@daixque).