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Good support for mocking responses, tests

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
graphql, python
Domain
api, testing

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the repository's existing GraphQL client tests and any response-mocking support, then map the requested behaviors to testable interfaces. Done means mocks can be checked against queries and schemas, support don't-care and sentinel values, allow per-test patching, and clarify whether automatic generation is included.

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Description

I think this should be high in the roadmap:
Make it easy/fun for application writers to write mock gql responses, to support their tests.

This includes:

  • Check the mock used in the test matches the query & schema used.
  • Allow a mocked response to contain "don't-care" values (which the test writer knows aren't important for the specific test) and sentinel values (which the author will want to check for identity).
  • Allow a basic mocked response to be written for a test class, and then 'patched" in place for each test with specific changes.
  • Maybe automagically generate a mocked response, à la https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ ?
Dominant language
Python
Stars
78
Forks
6
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