The contents of this project was donated to Feign project and it’s now available as part of Feig.

An easy way to test https://github.com/Netflix/feign. Since feign stores most of the logic in annotations, this helps to check if the annotations are correct.

The original article is available here

If mocking feign clients is easy, testing the logic written in annotations is not!

To check if you are parsing the request/response properly, the only way is firing a real request. Well, that doesn’t seem to be a good path to unit (or even integration) test remote services. Any IO change will affect test stability.

That is why I created feign-mock.

With feign-mock you can use pre-loaded JSON strings or streams as content for your responses. It also allows you to verify mocked invocations and feign-mock will hit your annotations to make sure everything works.

Example

  private GitHub github;
  private MockClient mockClient;

  @Before
  public void setup() throws IOException {
    mockClient = new MockClient()
        .noContent(HttpMethod.PATCH, "/repos/velo/feign-mock/contributors");

    github = Feign.builder()
        .decoder(new GsonDecoder())
        .client(mockClient)
        .target(new MockTarget<>(GitHub.class));
  }

  @After
  public void tearDown() {
    mockClient.verifyStatus();
  }

  @Test
  public void missHttpMethod() {
    List<Contributor> result = github.patchContributors("velo", "feign-mock");
    assertThat(result, nullValue());
    mockClient.verifyOne(HttpMethod.PATCH, "/repos/velo/feign-mock/contributors");
  }