Proposal: VCR-style request/response mocking middleware for testing
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- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
This would entail an external crate that provides a surf middleware with two modes (or potentially two different middlewares)
When it's in recording mode, it transparently writes all requests and responses to disk in a configurable well-known location in a human-readable and editable format of some sort. When it's in playback mode, instead of making requests against external servers, it responds with the data from disk
references:
* [Bypass](https://hexdocs.pm/bypass/Bypass.html)
* [ExVCR](https://github.com/parroty/exvcr)
* [VCR](https://github.com/vcr/vcr)
* [sepia](https://github.com/LinkedInAttic/sepia)
* [node-vcr](https://github.com/mbaertschi/node-vcr)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing Surf's middleware API and the referenced VCR-style projects, including Bypass, ExVCR, VCR, sepia, and node-vcr. Define how an external crate would provide recording and playback modes, configurable on-disk storage, and a human-readable editable format. Done means requests are recorded with responses and playback avoids external servers.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- testing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100