Ability to specify output directory for recorded mapping/files about wiremock

[tomakehurst]

You're actually the second person to have asked for this.

I've been planning a "scenarios" feature for a while that will not only allow what you're asking for, but also allow you to switch whole scenarios on and off, and support simple (jMock-esque) state.

I'll roll it out incrementally, with this as the first step.

[unscene]

So I can think of a scenario in JSON format for what I am thinking of:

{
  "recordMappings": true,
  "mappingsOutputDir": "somedir/relative/to/defautl/dir"
  "filesOutputDir": "somedir/relative/to/defautl/dir"
}

What would you define a scenario as? Wrapping how the application records certain things, and specifying a definition file
for the application to use?

[tomakehurst]

I was thinking of making the scenario name the root dir and putting mappings, and __files under it, rather than specifying them separately.

e.g.

wiremock
  scenario-1
      mappings
      __files
  scenario-2
      mappings
      __files

So the command line would look something like:

java -jar wiremock-standalone.jar --proxy-all="http://somehost.com" --record-mappings --scenario="successful-login"

[unscene]

Ahh cool, I see what you mean now, I like that approach better.

[tomakehurst]

Hey Ryan,

I'm guessing you're not too bothered about this now that you've moved on, so I'll close it off. Feel free to re-open if you'd still like something like this implemented.

Cheers,
Tom

[handstandsam]

Sounds cool :-) Doing this locally now by just creating different subdirectories with __files and mappings in to accomplish the same sorta thing, just have to move the WireMock standalone jar which is a little annoying.

[handstandsam]

I jumped the gun, just found --root-dir in the documentation: http://wiremock.org/running-standalone.html

Does this also work for recording, or just playback?

[tomakehurst]

Should be both, if memory serves.

[handstandsam]

You're right, they both work! How did I not figure out this until today? Thanks Tom, this will make things a lot easier.

[nareshk-gs]

Is this feature available now...?

I tried java -jar wiremock-standalone-2.10.1.jar --proxy-all="http://myhost.com" --record-mappings --scenario="successful" and wiremock fails to start with below exception -

Exception in thread "main" joptsimple.UnrecognizedOptionException: scenario is not a recognized option at joptsimple.OptionException.unrecognizedOption(OptionException.java:108) at joptsimple.OptionParser.handleLongOptionToken(OptionParser.java:510) at joptsimple.OptionParserState$2.handleArgument(OptionParserState.java:56) at joptsimple.OptionParser.parse(OptionParser.java:396) at com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.standalone.CommandLineOptions.<init>(CommandLineOptions.java:135) at com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.standalone.WireMockServerRunner.run(WireMockServerRunner.java:52) at com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.standalone.WireMockServerRunner.main(WireMockServerRunner.java:113)

[tomakehurst]

Not really sure what you're trying to do here, but there's never been any plan to add a scenario CLI parameter. I'd also suggest trying the new record feature as you're using the legacy one there which is less flexible.

[nareshk-gs]

I just started using WireMock and looking to use one mock service for multiple service needs. For the sake of maintainability, I thought of having files and mappings in corresponding sub directories.

I remember reading in some forum that wiremock supports subdirectory structure. Looking for ways to achieve that.

[handstandsam]

Use the root-dir command line param to use files and mappings in another directory.

[nareshk-gs]

That sort of helped. Thanks.
Does WireMock support driving responses based on "x-Correlation-Id" ..?

[handstandsam]

If that is a header, you can match headers. Check out the docs: http://wiremock.org/docs/request-matching/

[nareshk-gs]

This worked great for my need. Thanks a bunch!!! I might sound silly, but one last thing for a dummy like me.
I have mapping for multiple services on same folder and different service returns its own response based on the correlation id. I want to have a separate file for each service, that returns a specific response when the predefined correlation IDs doesn't match. A detailed example below.

map "app1-corId1" returns file "app1-corId1" as response on matching corId1 and url
map "app1-corId2" returns file "app1-corId2" as response on matching corId2 and url
map "app2-corId3" returns file "app2-corId3" as response on matching corId3 and url
map "app2-corId4" returns file "app2-corId4" as response on matching corId4 and url

I want to return file "app1-anyCorId" on matching the url on corId mismatch and no corId cases. I tried by adding priority 10 and removing header matching from request, but it fails to bring up the mock service. Is there a way to achieve this...?