In this hands-on lab you will create a mock API for passengers. It’s really a good idea to fake it before you make it! Teams can create mock services to indicate what they need an API to do, whilst Architects and developers can get a head start on their work by leveraging the Mock API well before the implemented API goes into production. This also allows you to get feedback and changes earlier in the API development lifecycle. This approach supports continuous planning, development, and testing.
Start by having your API Specs Project CustomerExperienceAirport open. Select PassengerAPI in the left hand menu or any of the definitions below.
From the right hand menu select Mock
Click "Start Mocking". This will create a mock application for passengers from your passenger API spec.
Once generation has completed, you will be presented with the following interactive documentation where you can test the mock responses.
This next section will show you how to test your mock application end points.
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Select the down-arrow to the right of "Get /v2/passengers".
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Select Try it out! Under GET /v2/passengers.
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Click the blue Execute button, and your request for passengers will return a list of passengers.
Also note that it will give you sample CURL commands and for a simple HTTP GET, a URL that you can use in a browser session.
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Let’s try testing /v2/passengers/{passengerid}. Scroll down to /v2/passengers/{passengerid} and expand.Click Try it out! to enable the form. Enter 11111 in passengerid parameter and click Execute
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Your request for /v2/passengers/11111 will return passenger details.
Creating Mock Apps is as simple as a mouse click on TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud. In this section, we leveraged the passengers API, generated and deployed a mock passengers app to the cloud and tested the API endpoint.
Next step: Implement API Internals