Context Factory

The Context Factory provides a straightforward method for testing Gin Handlers by generating a test context.

This project has been developped by the Aloe team and is now open source.

Overview

The module provides:

• A simple method to create gin.Context
• An easy way to test your gin.Handlers

Concept

Emulate an API call by populating a gin.Context thanks to the ContextOptions structure:

type ContextOptions struct {
	Method      string
	Path        string
	Body        io.Reader
	PathParams  gin.Params
	QueryParams map[string]string
	Headers     map[string]string
	ContextVars map[string]interface{}
}

Usage

Use the factory method to create a gin.Context and a httptest.ResponseRecorder inside a unit test:

    func TestGetDog(t *testing.T) {
        options := contextfactory.ContextOptions{
            Path: "/kid",
            QueryParams: map[string]string{
                "age":      3,
            }
        }

        context, writer := contextfactory.BuildGinTestContext(testCase.Context)

        GetDogs(context)

        assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, writer.Code)
    }

Contributing

This section will be added soon.

License

Client is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt.