Stubmatic

A stub server to mock behaviour of HTTP(s) / REST / SOAP services

Stubmatic is the new name for my other project Stubby DB. All the changes to stubby db after version 4.2.0 will be happend here only. Previous github & npm repo will be kept for old references.

Installation : $npm install stubmatic -g
Set up repo : $stubmatic init [repo-name]
Start server : $stubmatic [-d <repo-name>]
Help : $stubmatic --help

Important links : Video Tutorial, Wiki, NPM, Demo application, issues, changelogs

Configuration

To install stubmatic, you need to install nodejs and npm first. It is recommanded to be on latest version of both. npm is bundeled with nodejs. Now follow above commands to install stubmatic and to set up a repo.

How to start

Stubmatic works on request response mappings specified in a yaml file. Response contents can be read from body or file attribute of a maping.

-  request:
      url: /stubs/(admin|staff|customer|security)/([0-9]+)/2

   response:
      body: >
        multiple line response
        another line

When a request reaches to stubmatic server, it matches the request against all mappings. Whichever mapping matches first(top to bottom), will be used to serve the response. A complete response can be built with multiple files. It can also have some placeholder to show dynamic data, like date, or some random number or some part from request itself. Stubmatic first process and build complete response then respond back to any HTTP(s) request.

Using regular expression, single mapping can be used to match multiple requests and serve response from different files.

Sample SOAP request mapping

-  request:
     method: POST
     url: /soap-simulator/services/ServiceName
     post: actionName[\s\S]*mobile.([0-9]+)
  response:
     headers:
           content-type: text/xml
     strategy: "first-found"
     files: ["stubs/<% post.1 %>/response.xml","stubs/ServiceName/actionName/default.xml"]

Sample REST request mapping

-  request:
     method: GET
     url: /rest-simulator/services/ServiceName/actionName/([0-9]+)
  response:
     headers:
           content-type: text/xml
     strategy: "first-found"
     files: ["stubs/<% url.1 %>/response.xml","stubs/ServiceName/actionName/default.xml"]

To make the response dynamic, stubmatic comes with various features

Strategy: it helps to pick specific or random file to serve the response.
Default mapping and short notations: Helps to keep mapping file as small as possible whitout verbosing same information
Multiple mapping files: Helps to keep the project organized.
Regular Expressions: You can use RE to match a request, capture some part of the request, to decide response file at runtime, to change contents of response at runtime etc. You can capture request part from URL, request body, headers, and query parameters.
Expressions: Stubmatic has support for inbuilt functions and markers to display date, random number etc.
Dumps: You can devide the response from multiple files to keep it simplified. And join them at runtime using dumps.
DB sets: Instead of creating multiple response files for each request, you can create response skeleton. Later you can fill data in this skeleton from dumps and data tables (DB sets).
Latency: You can set fix or random delay to serve the response
HTTPS: It supports HTTP and HTTPS both. You can set up 1 way and 2 way SSL hanshaking.
Attachments: You can write mapping to response a file.
Compression: If accept-encoding header is set to deflate or gzip then Stubmatic serves compressed response.
Configuration: If configuration file is missing, Stubmatic can build the response on the basis of directory structure.
Other: There are also many other small features, like set response code, response headers, logging, debugging etc.

Other highlitghs

Stubmatic consumes very less memory and CPU
It is performance ready and being used by many organizations
No bug reported yet (from Apr 2016 to till date)

Breaking changes from 5.x

{{TODAY+1}} is dpreicated. Use {{TODAY+1d}} instead
{{JODA_TODAY+1}} is dpreicated. Use {{JODA_TODAY+1d}} instead
'err' property for dbset mapping is invalid. If a key doesn't match it'll look for default key ('*') otherwise it'll skip matching.
##dbset_key## can be used as {{#dbset_key}}
dumps [[dumpspath:file1,file2]] can be used as {{dump("dumpspath","file1","file2")}}.
options -m, and -s or --stub have been removed from stubmatic command as there is not much use of them. And many options always confuse.
Check syntax for short notations
In config.json, mappings.requests is depricated. Use mappings.files. It seems more meaningful.
'response.contentType' in mappings is invalid. Use 'response.sendasfile: true' instead. It seems more meaningful.

Features from 5.x

Robust: 97%+ code coverage. Many bugs are fixed. Code quality and structure is improved.
Now you can map multiple HTTP methods to a single method (not in short notations)
Short notations
Now you can proxy selected requests to other servers/simulators. This feature open many possibilities.
You can validate yaml, json from CLI for quick feedback. I'll add the support to validate XML soon.
2 more file stratigies are added.
You can debug HTTP requests from CLI
Support of yarn for fast installation
Now stubmatic can be started from nodejs code as well

I have dropped the plan to add support for redis because I couldn't find any good usecase for that. If you have any feature request add here

Check my other project too: fast-xml-parser to transform XML to JS/JSON objects quickly.

abbyarmada/Stubmatic