Ability to play nice with VCR recorders. about ohhttpstubs

[AliSoftware]

Hi

Didn't know VCRURLConnection but it seems pretty straightforward to me to make it work with OHHTTPStubs. Not sure an official branch or addition would be useful.

After reading the source, it seems to me that you simply need to create a VCRCassette object from your JSON file, then for each request to stub, use [cassette recordingForRequest:theRequest] to get a VCRRecording object and build an OHHTTPStubsResponse with its properties:

VCRCassette* cassette = [[VCRCassette alloc] initWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:yourJSONFileURL]];

[OHHTTPStubs shouldStubRequestsPassingTest:^BOOL(NSURLRequest *request) {
    return ([cassette recordingForRequest:request] != nil);
} withStubResponse:^OHHTTPStubsResponse*(NSURLRequest *request) {
    VCRRecording* rec = [cassette recordingForRequest:request];
    return [OHHTTPStubsResponse responseWithData:rec.data
                                      statusCode:rec.statusCode
                                    responseTime:whateverYourLike
                                         headers:rec.headerFields];
}];

And that should do the trick!
I haven't tested it but it doesn't seems to be anything more needed.

[stanislaw]

Ah, thanks! I overlooked this -recordingForRequest part. Seems really simple now. I did switch from acceptance testing stuff for a while, I will look at this closer later.

I am closing this issue for now.

Anyway, let me know, if you will have any insights about using OHHTTPStubs together with VCR.

[AliSoftware]

Hi

For your information latest versions 1.2.x and 2.x.y of OHHTTPStubs now include the capability of loading files generated by the output of curl -is, that is files that include the headers (with the response status code) AND body.

Simply put each of your responses (with their headers and body) in a *.response file (for example using curl -is http://example.iana.org >example1.response) and then use [OHHTTPStubsResponse responseNamed:@"example1" inBundle:nil responseTime:...] to replay them.

Not really the same format as the JSON format used by your VCR class, but still quite the same principle as you can replay real requests easily.