webMethods and Intelligent Business Operations 10.2 | API Gateway User's Guide | APIs | API Mocking
 
API Mocking
 
Enabling API Mocking
Modifying API Mocking Details
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Using API Gateway, you can mock an API by simulating the native API. For example, if you have an API without a native implementation, you can mock that API. The mocked response is returned to the consumer when the API is invoked.
In API Gateway, when you enable mocking for an API, a default mock response is configured for each combination of resource, operation, status code, and content-type based on the example and schema specified in that API. You can add a condition to the operation in the resource.
As an API Provider, you can create or modify the default mock response. You can specify conditions and associate an IS service with the mocked API. When an IS service is associated with a mocked API, the associated IS service must adhere to the apigateway.specifications:mockService specification.
At runtime, when the mocked API is invoked, instead of calling the native API, API Gateway returns the mocked response to the consumer based on the following priorities:
1. If any of the conditions for the invoked operation satisfies, API Gateway returns the associated mocked response.
2. If any of the conditions for the invoked operation is not satisfied, and if an IS service is configured for the API, then API Gateway invokes the IS service and returns the IS service response.
3. If any of the conditions for the invoked operation is not satisfied, and if an IS service is not configured for the API, then API Gateway returns the default mocked response.
API mocking is supported only for SOAP and REST APIs.
Note: You must have the API Gateway's manage APIs or activate/deactivate APIs functional privilege assigned to perform API mocking.

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