arunoda / meteor-http-interceptor

Intercepts HTTP calls and allows fake implementations to take over entire domains. Used for testing.

Meteor HTTP Interceptor

Intercepts HTTP calls and allows fake implementations to take over entire domains.

See this repo for an example of OAuth stubbing for GitHub. Your app can work offline even if it has a dependency on OAuth!

This package is for testing (deterministic responses from 3rd parties) and developing (on planes!)

##Usage:

// You must do this as this package is a debugOnly package and it's weakly referenced
HttpInterceptor = Package['xolvio:http-interceptor'].HttpInterceptor;

// Set the domain you wish to overtake and where you wish to redirect the requests to
HttpInterceptor.registerInterceptor('https://github.com', Meteor.absoluteUrl('fake.github.com'));

// You can then define some server side routes to stub out responses from the domain you overtook
Router.route('fake.api.github.com/user', function () {
  var cannedResponse = {
    'login': 'gh_fake',
    'id': 1234567,
    'name': 'Github Fake',
    'email': '[email protected]'
  };
  this.response.writeHead(200, {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
  });
  this.response.end(JSON.stringify(cannedResponse));
}, {where: 'server'});

NOTE :This package is a debugOnly package, which means it will not be deployed to production and will only work in development mode.

##Future Work

• Record and playback of responses (Like VCR for rails)