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[Testing & Quality](/categories/testing) 4. / 5. linio/behat-web-api-extension ActiveBehat-extension[Testing & Quality](/categories/testing) linio/behat-web-api-extension ============================= Maintained fork of behat/web-api-extension with extensions and support. 3.1.0(2y ago)5179.3k↓25.4%7BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=7.3 || ^8.0 Since May 26Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/LinioIT/behat-web-api-extension)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/linio/behat-web-api-extension)[ RSS](/packages/linio-behat-web-api-extension/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (7)Dependencies (6)Versions (13)Used By (0) WebApiExtension =============== [](#webapiextension) [![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4c724866b0ad04914b56f3b131f13a314cf9b36cecbd24b5b574fda9c0afc752/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f6c696e696f2f62656861742d7765622d6170692d657874656e73696f6e2f762f737461626c652e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/linio/behat-web-api-extension)[![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4f74c31a82bdede26de3bd5736a6f7a496dbd5a57c95c3b933a7c209f5158eb5/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f6c696e696f2f62656861742d7765622d6170692d657874656e73696f6e2f6c6963656e73652e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/linio/behat-web-api-extension)[![Build Status](https://github.com/LinioIT/behat-web-api-extension/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/LinioIT/behat-web-api-extension/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg) Provides testing for REST APIs with Behat 3. This is a maintained fork of `behat/web-api-extension` with additional features and long term support. Usage ----- [](#usage) Just add to your composer development dependencies: ``` $ composer require --dev linio/behat-web-api-extension ``` And activate your extension: ``` # behat.yml default: # ... extensions: Behat\WebApiExtension: ~ ``` Private to protected -------------------- [](#private-to-protected) One of the tricky things in the original `behat/web-api-extension` library is the extensive use of `private` properties and methods, preventing you from easily extending it. This fork fixes it by moving everything to `protected`. Placeholder support ------------------- [](#placeholder-support) One of the new features from this fork is the ability to use placeholders with regular expressions to help you test input or output that varies. For example: ``` Scenario: Sending values with placeholders Given a file named "features/send_values.feature" with: """ Feature: Exercise WebApiContext data sending In order to validate the send request step As a context developer I need to be able to send a request with values in a scenario Scenario: When I send a POST request to "echo" with values: | name | name | | pass | pass | Then the response should contain "POST" And the response should contain json: ''' { "name" : "name", "pass": "%[a-z]+%" } ''' """ When I run "behat features/send_values.feature" Then it should pass with: """ ... 1 scenario (1 passed) """ ``` It is common for APIs to return responses with dynamic content. UUIDs, timestamps, generated passwords, etc. All of those, unfortunately, make writing scenarios a bit challenging. With placeholders, you can easily test by using regular expressions to ensure they are returned in a valid format, but can still be variable. Other examples of placeholders: ``` { "timestamp": "%^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2,}[\\-\\+][0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$%", "uuid": "%^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-([0-9a-fA-F]{4}-){3}[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$%" } ``` Tests ----- [](#tests) ``` $ composer install $ php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t testapp & $ vendor/bin/behat -f progress ``` Copyright --------- [](#copyright) Copyright (c) 2014 Konstantin Kudryashov (ever.zet). See LICENSE for details. Contributors ------------ [](#contributors) - Christophe Coevoet [stof](http://github.com/stof) \[lead developer\] - Other [awesome developers](https://github.com/Behat/WebApiExtension/graphs/contributors) ### Health Score 42 — FairBetter than 90% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity39 Limited adoption so far Community20 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity75 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor3 3 contributors hold 50%+ of commits How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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