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Add support for testing with WireMock

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Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start with the DbxClientV2 constructors and DbxRequestUtil.buildUri, using the reported stack trace to trace how a custom host and port are handled. Done should allow a client configured for a localhost WireMock endpoint to construct valid request URIs and run Dropbox interaction tests without shared user credentials.

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Description

Hi,

We have some tests that verify our application can connect and interact with DropBox. Ideally, we'd like to be able to run these tests as part of our CI builds without requiring user credentials to be set up and shared.

I tried to use WireMock to capture real data for use in the mocked interactions, but ran into a couple of issues:

  1. Although there is a public constructor on DbxClientV2 that accepts a DbxHost object with custom URLs, there wasn't one with the correct combination of parameters that we needed. Our application uses the DbxClientV2(DbxRequestConfig, DbxCredential), so I'd have liked to append the DbxHost argument to that. Or failing that, call the private all-args constructor, which is essentially what I ended up doing via reflection.
  2. Even with a client configured to use a WireMock endpoint at localhost:{randomPort}, I got a URISyntaxException when trying to connect:
java.lang.RuntimeException: URI creation failed, host="localhost:38343", path="2/files/get_metadata": Malformed IPv6 address at index 9: https://[localhost:38343]/2/files/get_metadata
		at com.dropbox.core.util.LangUtil.mkAssert(LangUtil.java:15)
		at com.dropbox.core.DbxRequestUtil.buildUri(DbxRequestUtil.java:73)
		at com.dropbox.core.DbxRequestUtil.startPostRaw(DbxRequestUtil.java:269)
		at com.dropbox.core.v2.DbxRawClientV2$1.execute(DbxRawClientV2.java:146)
		at com.dropbox.core.v2.DbxRawClientV2.executeRetriable(DbxRawClientV2.java:330)
		at com.dropbox.core.v2.DbxRawClientV2.executeRetriableWithRefresh(DbxRawClientV2.java:351)
		at com.dropbox.core.v2.DbxRawClientV2.rpcStyle(DbxRawClientV2.java:137)
		at com.dropbox.core.v2.files.DbxUserFilesRequests.getMetadata(DbxUserFilesRequests.java:1571)
		at com.dropbox.core.v2.files.DbxUserFilesRequests.getMetadata(DbxUserFilesRequests.java:1603)

Are there any plans to make the host and port configurable?

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