Bypass provides a quick way to create a custom plug that can be put in place instead of an actual HTTP server to return prebaked responses to client requests. This is most useful in tests, when you want to create a mock HTTP server and test how your HTTP client handles different types of responses from the server.
Add bypass to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:
def deps do
[{:bypass, "~> 0.1", only: :test}]
end
It is not recommended to add :bypass
to the list of applications in your mix.exs
. See below
for usage info.
Start Bypass in your test/test_helper.exs
file to make it available in tests:
ExUnit.start
Application.ensure_all_started(:bypass)
To use Bypass in a test case, open a connection and use its port to connect your client to it.
If you want to test what happens when the HTTP server goes down, use Bypass.down/1
to close the
port and Bypass.up/1
to start listening on the same port again. Both functions guarantee
that the port will be closed, respective open, after returning:
In this example TwitterClient
reads its endpoint URL from the Application
's configuration:
defmodule TwitterClientTest do
use ExUnit.Case
setup do
bypass = Bypass.open
Application.put_env(:twitter_client, :endpoint, "http://localhost:#{bypass.port}/")
{:ok, bypass: bypass}
end
test "client can handle an error response", %{bypass: bypass} do
Bypass.expect bypass, fn conn ->
assert "/1.1/statuses/update.json" == conn.request_path
assert "POST" == conn.method
Plug.Conn.resp(conn, 429, ~s<{"errors": [{"code": 88, "message": "Rate limit exceeded"}]}>)
end
{:ok, client} = TwitterClient.start_link()
assert {:error, :rate_limited} == TwitterClient.post_tweet(client, "Elixir is awesome!")
end
test "client can recover from server downtime", %{bypass: bypass} do
Bypass.expect bypass, fn conn ->
# We don't care about `request_path` or `method` for this test.
Plug.Conn.resp(conn, 200, "")
end
{:ok, client} = TwitterClient.start_link()
assert :ok == TwitterClient.post_tweet(client, "Elixir is awesome!")
# Blocks until the TCP socket is closed.
Bypass.down(bypass)
assert {:error, :noconnect} == TwitterClient.post_tweet(client, "Elixir is awesome!")
Bypass.up(bypass)
# When testing a real client that is using i.e. https://github.com/fishcakez/connection
# with https://github.com/ferd/backoff to handle reconnecting, we'd have to loop for
# a while until the client has reconnected.
assert :ok == TwitterClient.post_tweet(client, "Elixir is awesome!")
end
end
That's all you need to do. Bypass automatically sets up an on_exit
hook to close its socket when
the test finishes running.
Multiple concurrent Bypass instances are supported, all will have a different unique port.
Set :enable_debug_log
to true
in the application environment to make Bypass log what it's doing:
config :bypass, enable_debug_log: true