grunt-dredd

Grunt wrapper for Dredd API Blueprint tester

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-dredd --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-dredd');

The "dredd" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named dredd to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  dredd: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    }
  },
});

Options

options.port

Type: Integer Default value: 3000

An integer value that is used to open the apimock server.

options.src

Type: String Default value: ./api/api.apib

A string value that represents the path to the API Blueprint file.

Dredd options

For a list of options available for Dredd, please check out Dredd Command Line Options.

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the default options are used to test an API Blueprint definition against a server running with the default options

grunt.initConfig({
  dredd: {
    options: {}
  },
});

Custom Options

In this example, custom options are used to test an API Blueprint definition against a server running on localhost, port 3000.

grunt.initConfig({
  dredd: {
    options: {
      server: 'http://localhost:3000',
      src: './api/another_api.apib',
    }
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

v0.1.0 - Initial release

dmtrs/grunt-dredd