How do I mock the Post/Put/Delete data?

[feikiss]

In sample2, I can find the usage about how to prepare the Mock data for the Get request which seems very simple and easily. I want to know how can I prepare the mock data for POST/Put/Delete request in the same way with Sample 2?

like this:
var myData = [
{collection: '/pets', name: '/Lassie', data: {name: 'Lassie', type: 'dog1'}},
{collection: '/pets', name: '/Clifford', data: {name: 'Clifford', type: 'dog'}},
{collection: '/pets', name: '/Garfield', data: {name: 'Garfield', type: 'cat'}},
{collection: '/pets', name: '/Snoopy', data: {name: 'Snoopy', type: 'dog'}}
]
server.dataStore.save(Resource.parse(myData));

Any comment is appreciated!

Thanks,
Flyli

[JamesMessinger]

I'm not sure what you mean. Mock data isn't for a particular kind of request (get, post, put, etc.). It's just data. A GET request retrieves that data. A POST request inserts new data. A PUT request updates existing data. A DELETE request deletes existing data.

[feikiss]

Thanks @BigstickCarpet for your comment. I mean in some special cases, I send a POST request, for example, I Post to create a new Pet, in the response, there is a field saying the status for this pet. I just care about the "status" field in the response. For this case, I want to mock this response and I don't care whether I can create the pet or not in the server. So, my question is :how can I mock this Post response in the swagger-server like we Mock the "GET" response?

[JamesMessinger]

If you want to return a different response than the default behavior, then you can add your own middleware to do so.

server.post('/pets/{petName}', function(req, res, next) {
  res.json({status: 'created successfully'});
}

[feikiss]

Thanks @BigstickCarpet ! It works fine and I can mock the data what I want now. Just have one another question, I want to change the default behavior of swagger-server: If I send a 'get' request, and the response is empty, then I want to use the example value as the response. You know in the swagger-ui project, it can generate the example values via the swagger model definition, do you know how or where
should I change it please?

[JamesMessinger]

@feikiss - Glad to hear that it's working for you now. And yes, Swagger Server has built-in support for default and example responses. If you define a default or example response in your schema, then Swagger Server will automatically send that response if there's no data. See the end of the first walkthrough for an example

[feikiss]

Yes @BigstickCarpet ,the default or example value in Swagger file can be used in Swagger Server, but it does not fit my requirement... I do not define the default value, but I want to send back the mock response via the schema definition...

For example,the following is the schema definition in the response.

"responses" : {
          "200" : {
            "description" : "successful operation",
            "schema" : {
              "$ref" : "#/definitions/ActionVO"
              }
            }
          }
}

"definitions" : {
    "ActionVO" : {
      "type" : "object",
      "properties" : {
        "id":{
            "type" : "string"
        }
        "name" : {
          "type" : "string"
        },
        "state" : {
          "type" : "string"
        }

and I'd like to send back the following value(also you can refer to the screen-shot attached) :

[
  {
    "id": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "state": "string"
  }
]

It is generated by the Swagger-UI, and I want to use it as the default value. Not sure whether we can integrated in the swagger-server, but I think there should be some possible way..

Thanks.

[JamesMessinger]

There are two ways that you can do this. The first, is to add the default to your schema:

"definitions" : {
    "ActionVO" : {
      "type" : "object",
      "properties" : {
        "id":{
            "type" : "string"
        },
        "name" : {
          "type" : "string"
        },
        "state" : {
          "type" : "string"
        },
      "default": {
          "id": "456XYZ",
          "name": "John Doe",
          "state": "California"
      }

The second is to write your own middleware to return whatever value you want:

server.post('/pets/{petName}', function(req, res, next) {
  res.json({
    id: "456XYZ",
    name: "John Doe",
    status: 'California'
  });
}

[feikiss]

Thanks @BigstickCarpet so much, It works!