mock_api: Simple mocking of package URLS

In ImperialCollegeLondon/safe_data: Interface to Data from the SAFE Project

Simple mocking of package URLS

Description

These functions allows a curated list of URLs used in the package to be mocked for use in examples, vignettes and testing. This avoids the package relying on web connections for testing and allows vignettes to use actual live code when building, rather than having to fake those code blocks. It also separates the safedata server API from package development, so that package testing does not require an actual server running an updated API, but can simulate it it locally.

Usage

mock_handler(req)

mock_api(on = TRUE)

Details

The api_mock function turns the HTTR mocking on and off, by adding the mock_handler callback handler via set_callback. This handler is very basic and it would be more robust to use something like the webmockr package, but at present that does not support binary mocked files and also (less importantly) loads the content of responses into its registry rather than on request.

Functions

• mock_handler(): A mock handler for URL callbacks

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