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A Go handler that lets you test your HTTP client, retry logic, streaming behavior, timeouts etc. with the endpoints of httpbin.org locally in a net/http/httptest.Server.

This way, you can write tests without relying on an external dependency like httpbin.org.

Endpoints

How to use

Standing up a Go server running httpbin endpoints is just 1 line:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "github.com/ahmetb/go-httpbin"
)

func main() {
	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", httpbin.GetMux()))
}

Let's say you do not want a server running all the time because you just want to test your HTTP logic after all. Integrating httpbin to your tests is very simple:

package test

import (
    "testing"
    "net/http"
    "net/http/httptest"

    "github.com/ahmetb/go-httpbin"
)

func TestDownload(t *testing.T) {
    srv := httptest.NewServer(httpbin.GetMux())
    defer srv.Close()

    resp, err := http.Get(srv.URL + "/bytes/65536")
    if err != nil {
        t.Fatal(err)
    }
    // read from an actual HTTP server hosted locally
    // test whatever you are going to test...
}

go-httpbin works from the command line as well:

$ go install github.com/ahmetb/go-httpbin/cmd/httpbin@latest
$ $GOPATH/bin/httpbin -host :8080

Development

You must have the following tools installed on your system:

To get started, simply run glide install to install all the dependencies of this package. Then, run go test $(glide nv) to test it.

License

Copyright 2016 Ahmet Alp Balkan

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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