README

Behat extension to help write describe features related to HTTP APIs.

PHP 7.3, Behat 3.7 and a discoverable php-http client are required to make this extension work.

Installing this extension requires you to require taluu/behapi and an implementation of a http client (providing psr/http-client-implementation ^1.0, psr/http-factory-implementation ^1.0 and psr/http-message-implementation ^1.0).

You can find some examples on the examples/ directory.

Howto

Add this in your behat.yml (it's for the default configuration but you can use it for any configurations actually) :

default:
  suites:
    main:
      paths: ['%paths.base%/features']
      services: '@Behapi\Container'
      autowire: true

      contexts:
        #- List
        #- your
        #- contexts
        #- here

        # examples :
        - Behapi\Http\RequestContext: ~
        - Behapi\Http\ResponseContext: ~

  extensions:
    Behapi\Behapi:
      base_url: 'http://localhost'

The base_url is the only requirement in the config for this extension to work.

There are other configurations keys, such as which formatter to use in a debug environment, which headers you want to output in request or response while debugging ; Use the --config-reference flag when invoking behat to have more information on the available configuration.

After having installed the extension, you can then use the provided contexts such as the Behapi\Http\RequestContext for the http api operations. In order to use them, you need to use behapi's container (@Behapi\Container), or a container capable of using behapi's container.

Some services are provided to be injected in contexts, which are the following:

• @Http\Client\Common\PluginClientBuilder, which will build a Http\Client\Common\PluginClient when needed
• @Behapi\HttpHistory\History, which is a sort of a container with the last requests done and last responses received
• @Http\Message\MessageFactory
• @Http\Message\StreamFactory

Note: You don't really need to bother with the services names, as they are compatible with behat's auto-wiring feature.

In order to enable the Json assertions, you need to use the Behapi\Context\Json context. Note that if you use the json context, you should have used the client provided by the client builder used in the Behapi\Http\RequestContext context.

If you need to play with the request being built, or the response created when the request is sent, you need to inject the @Behapi\HttpHistory\History. It is automatically reseted between scenarios (and scenarios outlines)

A documentation will be made (soon hopefully) with more details.

Contributing

Contributing (issues, pull-requests) are of course always welcome ! Be sure to respect the standards (such as psr-2, ... etc), follow proper git etiquette (atomic commits, ...), proper conduct too and it should be fine !

Thanks

This extension was made while I was working at @Wisembly, and heavily used for writing our features and integration tests. Special thanks goes to @lunika, @rgazelot and @krichprollsch, who helped conceived this extension, and also pushed me to open-source it.

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