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One Tool to rule them all, One Tool to CI them, One Tool to test them all and in the darkness +1 them. Gandalf is designed to provide a language and stack agnostic HTTP API contract testing suite and prototyping toolchain. This is achieved by; running an HTTP API (aka provider), connecting to it as a real client (aka consumer) of the provider, asserting that it matches various rules (aka contracts). Optionally, once a contract is written you can then generate an approximation of the API (this happens just before the contract is tested) in the form of a mock. This allows for rapid prototyping and/or parallel development of the real consumer and provider implementations. Gandalf has no allegiance to any specific paradigms, technologies, or concepts and should bend to fit real world use cases as opposed to vice versa. This means if Gandalf does something one way today it does not mean that tomorrow it could not support a different way provided someone has a use for it. While Gandalf does use golang and the go test framework, it is not specific to go as at its core it just makes HTTP requests and checks the responses. Your web server or clients can be written in any language/framework. The official documentation also uses JSON and RESTful API's as examples but Gandalf supports any and all paradigms or styles of API. Most go programs are compiled down to a binary and executed, Gandalf is designed to be used as a library to write your own tests and decorate the test binary instead. For example, Gandalf does have several command line switches however they are provided to the `go test` command instead of some non existent `Gandalf` command. This allows Gandalf to get all kind of testing and benchmarking support for free while being a well known stable base to build upon. Contract testing can be a bit nebulous and also has various option prefixes such as Consumer Driven, Gandalf cares not for any prefixes (who writes contracts and where is up to you) nor does it care if you are testing the interface or your API or the business logic or some combination of both, no one will save you from blowing your own foot off if you choose to.

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purl: pkg:golang/github.com/%21jumbo%21interactive%21limited/%21gandalf
Keywords: benchmarking, contract-testing, gandalf, go, golang, http, mocking, testing-tools, web
License: MIT
Latest release: about 5 years ago
First release: about 5 years ago
Namespace: github.com/JumboInteractiveLimited
Dependent repositories: 1
Stars: 14 on GitHub
Forks: 4 on GitHub
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