typekpb/httpexpect

End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.

httpexpect

Concise, declarative, and easy to use end-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go (golang).

Basically, httpexpect is a set of chainable builders for HTTP requests and assertions for HTTP responses and payload, on top of net/http and several utility packages.

Workflow:

• Incrementally build HTTP requests.
• Inspect HTTP responses.
• Inspect response payload recursively.

Features

Request builder

• URL path construction, with simple string interpolation provided by go-interpol package.
• URL query parameters (encoding using go-querystring package).
• Headers, cookies, payload: JSON, urlencoded or multipart forms (encoding using form package), plain text.
• Create custom request builders that can be reused.

Response assertions

• Response status, predefined status ranges.
• Headers, cookies, payload: JSON, JSONP, forms, text.
• Round-trip time.

Payload assertions

• Type-specific assertions, supported types: object, array, string, number, boolean, null, datetime.
• Regular expressions.
• Simple JSON queries (using subset of JSONPath), provided by jsonpath package.
• JSON Schema validation, provided by gojsonschema package.

Pretty printing

• Verbose error messages.
• JSON diff is produced on failure using gojsondiff package.
• Failures are reported using testify (assert or require package) or standard testing package.
• Dumping requests and responses in various formats, using httputil, http2curl, or simple compact logger.

Tuning

• Tests can communicate with server via HTTP client or invoke HTTP handler (Go function) directly.
• Integration with fasthttp HTTP handler is available too.
• Custom HTTP client, logger, and failure reporter may be provided by user.

Status

Stable branches are available on gopkg.in and will not introduce backward-incompatible changes.

Current stable branch is v1:

import "gopkg.in/gavv/httpexpect.v1"

Development is done in master branch on github:

import "github.com/gavv/httpexpect"

Documentation

Documentation is available on GoDoc. It contains an overview and reference.

Examples

See example/ directory for complete standalone examples.

• fruits_test.go

  Testing simple CRUD server written using bare net/http.

• iris_test.go

  Testing various examples written using iris framework: JSON queries and validation, url and form parameters, basic auth, sessions, streaming.

• echo_test.go

  Testing JWT authentication implemented with echo framework. Running tests via http client, http.Handler, or fasthttp.RequestHandler.

Quick start

Hello, world!

package example

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

	"github.com/gavv/httpexpect"
)

func TestFruits(t *testing.T) {
	// create http.Handler
	handler := FruitServer()

	// run server using httptest
	server := httptest.NewServer(handler)
	defer server.Close()

	// create httpexpect instance
	e := httpexpect.New(t, server.URL)

	// is it working?
	e.GET("/fruits").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).JSON().Array().Empty()
}

JSON

	orange := map[string]interface{}{
		"weight": 100,
	}

	e.PUT("/fruits/orange").WithJSON(orange).
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusNoContent).NoContent()

	e.GET("/fruits/orange").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).
		JSON().Object().ContainsKey("weight").ValueEqual("weight", 100)

	apple := map[string]interface{}{
		"colors": []interface{}{"green", "red"},
		"weight": 200,
	}

	e.PUT("/fruits/apple").WithJSON(apple).
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusNoContent).NoContent()

	obj := e.GET("/fruits/apple").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).JSON().Object()

	obj.Keys().ContainsOnly("colors", "weight")

	obj.Value("colors").Array().Elements("green", "red")
	obj.Value("colors").Array().Element(0).String().Equal("green")
	obj.Value("colors").Array().Element(1).String().Equal("red")
	obj.Value("colors").Array().First().String().Equal("green")
	obj.Value("colors").Array().Last().String().Equal("red")

JSON Schema and JSON Path

	schema := `{
		"type": "array",
		"items": {
			"type": "object",
			"properties": {
				...
				"private": {
					"type": "boolean"
				}
			}
		}
	}`

	repos := e.GET("/repos/octocat").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).JSON()

	// validate JSON schema
	repos.Schema(schema)

	// run JSONPath query and iterate results
	for _, private := range repos.Path("$..private").Array().Iter() {
		private.Boolean().False()
	}

Forms

	// post form encoded from struct or map
	e.POST("/form").WithForm(structOrMap).
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)

	// set individual fields
	e.POST("/form").WithFormField("foo", "hello").WithFormField("bar", 123).
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)

	// multipart form
	e.POST("/form").WithMultipart().
		WithFile("avatar", "./john.png").WithFormField("username", "john").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)

URL construction

	// construct path using ordered parameters
	e.GET("/repos/{user}/{repo}", "octocat", "hello-world").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)

	// construct path using named parameters
	e.GET("/repos/{user}/{repo}").
		WithPath("user", "octocat").WithPath("repo", "hello-world").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)

	// set query parameters
	e.GET("/repos/{user}", "octocat").WithQuery("sort", "asc").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)    // "/repos/octocat?sort=asc"

Headers

	// set If-Match
	e.POST("/users/john").WithHeader("If-Match", etag).WithJSON(john).
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)

	// check ETag
	e.GET("/users/john").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).Header("ETag").NotEmpty()

	// check Date
	t := time.Now()

	e.GET("/users/john").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).Header("Date").DateTime().InRange(t, time.Now())

Cookies

	// set cookie
	t := time.Now()

	e.POST("/users/john").WithCookie("session", sessionID).WithJSON(john).
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK)

	// check cookies
	c := e.GET("/users/john").
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).Cookie("session")

	c.Value().Equal(sessionID)
	c.Domain().Equal("example.com")
	c.Path().Equal("/")
	c.Expires().InRange(t, t.Add(time.Hour * 24))

Regular expressions

	// simple match
	e.GET("/users/john").
		Expect().
		Header("Location").
		Match("http://(.+)/users/(.+)").Values("example.com", "john")

	// check capture groups by index or name
	m := e.GET("/users/john").
		Expect().
		Header("Location").Match("http://(?P<host>.+)/users/(?P<user>.+)")

	m.Index(0).Equal("http://example.com/users/john")
	m.Index(1).Equal("example.com")
	m.Index(2).Equal("john")

	m.Name("host").Equal("example.com")
	m.Name("user").Equal("john")

Subdomains and per-request URL

	e.GET("/path").WithURL("http://example.com").
	   Expect().
	   Status(http.StatusOK)

	e.GET("/path").WithURL("http://subdomain.example.com").
	   Expect().
	   Status(http.StatusOK)

Reusable builders

	e := httpexpect.New(t, "http://example.com")

	r := e.POST("/login").WithForm(Login{"ford", "betelgeuse7"}).
		Expect().
		Status(http.StatusOK).JSON().Object()

	token := r.Value("token").String().Raw()

	auth := e.Builder(func (req *httpexpect.Request) {
		req.WithHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+token)
	})

	auth.GET("/restricted").
	   Expect().
	   Status(http.StatusOK)

	e.GET("/restricted").
	   Expect().
	   Status(http.StatusUnauthorized)

Custom config

	e := httpexpect.WithConfig(httpexpect.Config{
		// prepend this url to all requests
		BaseURL: "http://example.com",

		// use http.Client with a cookie jar and timeout
		Client: &http.Client{
			Jar:     httpexpect.NewJar(),
			Timeout: time.Second * 30,
		},

		// use fatal failures
		Reporter: httpexpect.NewRequireReporter(t),

		// use verbose logging
		Printers: []httpexpect.Printer{
			httpexpect.NewCurlPrinter(t),
			httpexpect.NewDebugPrinter(t, true),
		},
	})

Session support

	// cookie jar is used to store cookies from server
	e := httpexpect.WithConfig(httpexpect.Config{
		Reporter: httpexpect.NewAssertReporter(t),
		Client: &http.Client{
			Jar: httpexpect.NewJar(), // used by default if Client is nil
		},
	})

	// cookies are disabled
	e := httpexpect.WithConfig(httpexpect.Config{
		Reporter: httpexpect.NewAssertReporter(t),
		Client: &http.Client{
			Jar: nil,
		},
	})

Use HTTP handler directly

	// invoke http.Handler directly using httpexpect.Binder
	var handler http.Handler = myHandler()

	e := httpexpect.WithConfig(httpexpect.Config{
		Reporter: httpexpect.NewAssertReporter(t),
		Client: &http.Client{
			Transport: httpexpect.NewBinder(handler),
			Jar:       httpexpect.NewJar(),
		},
	})

	// invoke fasthttp.RequestHandler directly using httpexpect.FastBinder
	var handler fasthttp.RequestHandler = myHandler()

	e := httpexpect.WithConfig(httpexpect.Config{
		Reporter: httpexpect.NewAssertReporter(t),
		Client: &http.Client{
			Transport: httpexpect.NewFastBinder(handler),
			Jar:       httpexpect.NewJar(),
		},
	})

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Contributing

Feel free to report bugs, suggest improvements, and send pull requests! Don't forget to add documentation and tests for new features and run all tests before submitting pull requests:

go test github.com/gavv/httpexpect/...

License

MIT