1 00:00:00,660 --> 00:00:03,000 Instructor: So, let's use Beeceptor 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,260 and see how we can use it to simulate REST API. 3 00:00:07,260 --> 00:00:12,247 So first, head to this URL, https://beeceptor.com. 4 00:00:13,255 --> 00:00:17,700 So, this is Beeceptor's homepage. 5 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:19,500 You see here a short description 6 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:24,000 of what Beeceptor does and a large text box. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,330 In this text box, you are going to choose the domain 8 00:00:27,330 --> 00:00:30,540 that you are going to use to simulate the REST API. 9 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:33,090 It can be any name you would like, 10 00:00:33,090 --> 00:00:36,360 so just pick a name and write it here. 11 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,057 I'll use here, apicourse and create endpoint. 12 00:00:46,260 --> 00:00:48,300 Now you see this page. 13 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:49,133 In this page. 14 00:00:49,133 --> 00:00:53,930 What you see, is the full URL of the server of the domain. 15 00:00:55,650 --> 00:00:59,130 Your API will be residing, copy this URL, 16 00:00:59,130 --> 00:01:00,933 we will use it later in this course. 17 00:01:02,310 --> 00:01:06,420 And now, what we would like to do now is create 18 00:01:06,420 --> 00:01:10,650 a test API to make sure everything is working fine. 19 00:01:10,650 --> 00:01:13,890 Now REST API mocking in receptor 20 00:01:13,890 --> 00:01:16,710 is defined using the mocking rules. 21 00:01:16,710 --> 00:01:18,390 You can see it up here. 22 00:01:18,390 --> 00:01:23,390 So, let's click mocking rules and create new rule. 23 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,900 And this is where things get really interesting. 24 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:31,590 So, what we do in this page is defining what is 25 00:01:31,590 --> 00:01:34,560 the REST API that we want to mock? 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,140 Including its address, its verb, 27 00:01:37,140 --> 00:01:40,620 its headers, its response, and the body. 28 00:01:40,620 --> 00:01:45,570 So, let's define a REST API endpoint and see what happens. 29 00:01:45,570 --> 00:01:48,840 So, first we are going to choose the method. 30 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,000 If you click this and opens the list, 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,520 then you can see here all the HTP verbs 32 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,830 we talked about, including some more 33 00:01:55,830 --> 00:01:57,030 that we didn't talk about. 34 00:01:57,030 --> 00:01:58,803 And we will go with GET. 35 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,140 Here, we are going to write the URL of the REST API. 36 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:09,139 So, let's call it api/test. 37 00:02:10,620 --> 00:02:13,470 In this text box, we pick the status code 38 00:02:13,470 --> 00:02:15,720 we want the API to return. 39 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:20,100 In this case, we will leave it as it is 200 meaning, okay. 40 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:22,740 And here, is the response body 41 00:02:22,740 --> 00:02:24,960 or the contents of the response. 42 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,430 So in this text box, 43 00:02:26,430 --> 00:02:29,130 we will define what will be the response 44 00:02:29,130 --> 00:02:33,150 we will get from Beeceptor when calling the API. 45 00:02:33,150 --> 00:02:37,800 So, let's just change this to success, 46 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,800 so that our test is success and click save rule. 47 00:02:43,950 --> 00:02:47,700 So, this is our first REST API mocking 48 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:49,350 and let's see if it works. 49 00:02:49,350 --> 00:02:51,820 Let's open another instance of the browser 50 00:02:52,950 --> 00:02:56,550 and paste here the URL we picked before, 51 00:02:56,550 --> 00:02:58,620 notice the domain name here. 52 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:00,510 This is a domain name that we selected 53 00:03:00,510 --> 00:03:04,009 at the beginning when creating our account in Beeceptor. 54 00:03:04,009 --> 00:03:07,560 And then, we'll just write what is written here, 55 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,620 the URL of our API. 56 00:03:10,620 --> 00:03:14,850 So, this will be api/test. 57 00:03:14,850 --> 00:03:19,830 Enter and you see here the body that we defined. 58 00:03:19,830 --> 00:03:23,100 So, it looks that everything is working just fine. 59 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:25,830 We are going to use Beeceptor across this course 60 00:03:25,830 --> 00:03:26,970 and you will find out, 61 00:03:26,970 --> 00:03:29,580 it's very easy to use and very useful 62 00:03:29,580 --> 00:03:31,293 for learning REST API.