grunt-ng-apimock

Grunt plugin that wraps around ng-apimock which provides the ability to use scenario based api mocking:

• for local development
• for protractor testing

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-ng-apimock --save-dev
 

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-ng-apimock');
 

The "ngApimock" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named ngApimock to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  ngApimock: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
})
 

This task will process the mock data provided in the configuration and make it accessible for connect as middleware.

Options

options.defaultOutputDir

Type: String Default: '.tmp/mocks/'

Should be the location where the ngApimock plugin will put it's generated files.

options.watch

Type: boolean Default: false Mandatory: false

Indicates if mocks should be watched.

src

Type: String Mandatory: true

Should be the location where the mock json files are located.

Usage Examples

Default Options

grunt.initConfig({
  ngApimocks: {
    options: {
        defaultOutputDir: '...', // the output directory
        watch: boolean // optional: default false
    },
    your_target: {   
       src: '...' // the directory containing all your json mocks
    }
  }
})
 

Howto write mocks

see Howto write mocks

Howto use global variables

see Howto use global variables

Howto serve selected mocks

To be able to use the selected mocks you need to do two things:

1. Add the connect middleware
2. Add the mocking interface to your connect configuration

Add the connect middleware

When running grunt-contrib-connect you can do add the following middleware block to your configuration

{
    connect: {
        yourTarget: {
            options: {
                middleware: function (connect) {
                    return [
                        (require('ng-apimock/lib/utils').ngApimockRequest),
                        ...
                        connect().use('/', serveStatic('some-path-where-your-sources-are'))
                    ];
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Add the mocking interface to your connect configuration

When running grunt-contrib-connect you can do add the following staticServe block to your configuration

{
    connect: {
        yourTarget: {
            options: {
                middleware: function (connect) {
                    return [
                        ...
                        connect().use('/mocking', serveStatic('path/to/the/generated/mocking/index.html')),
                        connect().use('/', serveStatic('some-path-where-your-sources-are'))
                    ];
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
 

Howto use for local development

see Howto use for local development

Howto use for your protractor tests.

see Howto use for your protractor tests

Available functions

see Available functions

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.