An other open source api for mocking json data with a bonus of end point notification.

Serve Data

Note: only public github repository is supported

Mockapi use the file '.mockapi.yml' from your repository as a configuration file.

Property	Type	Mandatory	Description	Default
dbFile	string	Optional	The database file location. e.g: public/raw.json	db.json
dbDataPath	string	Optional	The root path to serve inside the databse file. e.g: /data	/
apiRoutePrefix	string	Optional	The global prefix of the api. e.g: /apiV1	/api
routes	RouteConfig	Optional	The routing configuration.	GET: Accept:all / POST: Reject:all
version	string	Required	The version of the configuration. Curent: 0.0.1

Describe RouteConfig

Note: We use path-to-regExp:6.2.1 to validate expression.

Property	Type	Mandatory	Description
post	PostApi[]	Optional	The list of route configuration for post request.
get	string[]	Optional	The list of get route regExp to authorize.

Describe PostApi

Property	Type	Mandatory	Description
path	string	Required	The path expression for the desired route
scheduleNotification	PostNotification	Optional	The a notification configuration if the current end point have to notify server like payment end point.
bodyFields	Record<string, boolean>	Optional	Decribe the body of incoming request. It's a record of authorized field name as key and mandatory as value.
restrictedBody	boolean	Optional	Restrict body to the defined body field. Default: false

Describe PostNotification

Property	Type	Mandatory	Description
followProp	string	Required	The body field of the incoming request which contain the url to notify
timeoutInSecond	number	Optional	The delay before sending notification to the provided url. Default: 60
notificationMethod	enum {'POST', 'GET'}	Optional	The method to use to notify the end point provided in the value of followProp. Default: GET
postDataPath	string	Optional	The database path to the notification data. Used only when the notificationMethod is 'POST'.

Note: When notificationMethod is POST postDataPath is defined and the desired data wasn't found in the database, null body will be posted to the notificationMethod.

API Reference

Once the database created, The base path of your end point would be https:mockapi.taurs.dev/:GITHUB_OWNER_ID/:REPO_NAME

Note: Your main branch should be one of ['main', 'dev', 'master']

E.g: Get List of predefined user.

 GET https://mockapi.taurs.dev/tadjaur/mockapi/api-1/user # api-1 here is the defined route prefix.

E.g: Get The first user of predefined users.

 GET https://mockapi.taurs.dev/tadjaur/mockapi/api-1/user/0

Usages

• cinetpay_payment_apis : Use mockapi as the developement environment of the cinetpay payment api.
• orange_money_apis : Use mockapi the simulate the developement environment for the OM Api.

Acknowledgements

• jsonplaceholder