Hi Dave,
Ah! OK, the port of 8080 was a bad choice, looks like you've got something on there already! Have a go with 9001 or something else until that 'address already in use' error goes away.
Regards,
Rup
Hi Dave,
So, it sounds like you're looking to create a REST mock - I take it you've seen:
https://www.soapui.org/rest-testing-mocking/rest-service-mocking.html
And related pages on the SoapUI wiki?
Is it just a basic REST mock with GET mock Action and fixed JSON or XML response? You only need scripting skills if you want to make the mock's response dynamic in some way, rather than hard coded.
Let me know how far you've got with creating the REST project & REST Mock and we can take it from there.
Regards,
Rupert
Yep, saw that and other informational pages on Mock Services. The concept seems OK. I create a mock service (I guess give it a name). Then I create mock actions (which I guess are the ?methods? / functionality exposed by the API. Each mock action (I guess) has one or more responses; made up of success responses, warning, or error responses. For example, a success response can be 'here's the data you requested' or you made a valid request - there's just no data to return to you', or errors like XYZ is a required input parameter, or the format for DATE is incorrect, or username/password incorrect, etc. etc.
I was able to name a mock service but couldn't get one step past that. I couldn't name/create a mock action (it was asking for a "resource path". I don't understand Resource Path or Dispatch. I guess Resource Path is a folder, but what do you put in the folder? Dispatch concept is foreign, I just don't understand it. I don't know any scripting languages... Clearly I don't have sufficient background to create & document a mock service ergo that's why I asked, where do I start?
The API under development is REST based. It has 5 required inputs and 2 optional inputs. There's only one mock action, the data request. The user makes a request for data and the API responds. There isn't a 'conversation'. If successful data a 'table' of data (several of rows of data) is returned (the response) to the user. I know the fields/format of the data that's returned.
Thanks, DaveK
Hi Dave,
OK, first things first, maybe we should work on the terminology side. If you have a REST service:
(GET) http://localhost:8080/hello
Then:
host->localhost
port->8080
path->/
The create the action -> hello
Set the method->GET and Resource Path->/hello, dispatch type->sequence (not script)
Create a response, called 'default', Content-Type: text/xml, response body as <xml>hell</hello>
Then just start the mock, make a request to http://localhost:8080/hello, and you should see <xml>hello</xml>!
Regards,
Rup
Not quite working for me. It looks like my company laptop Windows hosts file is all commented out so I don't think localhost is defined. For MockService options I just put the actual computer name of my laptop rather than localhost. When I 'run' the mock service the activity bar just ping-pongs left to right, back and forth. If I fire up a browser and navigate directly I get a message there are 0 MockServices running. Here's a 'photo". Sorry but the size of the jpeg gets limited. I can't seem to get it to scale to full size...
Hi Dave,
It sounds like the mock isn't starting properly - maybe because its having trouble binding to the ip / port? Have you tried 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost or the computer name? Normally if the port is already in use you get a different error message.
On the positive side, it looks like the rest of the mock could be ok from the screenshot.
Regards,
Rupert
