How can I mock a http response correctly
Hello everybody, I'm currently trying to mock the HTTP client's response for unit tests. In both cases, I have a sequence, but I need to handle them differently. Why is that, and how can I correctly mock a response so that it behaves exactly like the real response? Here's my test script: # schnipp declare function local:httpMockResponse() { ( <http:response status="200"/>, <html> <foo>bar</foo> </html> ) }; <real>{http:send-request((),"https://nexoma.de")[2]/html/name()}</real>, <mock>{local:httpMockResponse()[2]/html/name()}</mock>, <mock2>{local:httpMockResponse()[2]/name()}</mock2> (: Why one level lower here? :) # schnapp I just don't get it. :( Best regards Andreas
Hi Andreas,
Why one level lower here? That level difference is often the difference between a root node and an enclosing document-node. The send-request()[2] is returning a document-node. You can mock the same as below.
/Andy declare function local:httpMockResponse() { <http:response status="200"/>, * document{* <html> <foo>bar</foo> </html> } }; On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 at 11:31, Andreas Hengsbach | nexoma via BaseX-Talk < basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
Hello everybody,
I'm currently trying to mock the HTTP client's response for unit tests. In both cases, I have a sequence, but I need to handle them differently.
Why is that, and how can I correctly mock a response so that it behaves exactly like the real response?
Here's my test script:
# schnipp declare function local:httpMockResponse() { ( <http:response status="200"/>, <html> <foo>bar</foo> </html> ) }; <real>{http:send-request((),"https://nexoma.de")[2]/html/name()}</real>, <mock>{local:httpMockResponse()[2]/html/name()}</mock>,
<mock2>{local:httpMockResponse()[2]/name()}</mock2> (: Why one level lower here? :) # schnapp
I just don't get it. :(
Best regards Andreas
Hi Andy, That was the key clue. 👍 My colleague just found it in the specs as well: https://expath.org/spec/http-client#d2e517 Thanks for your help. Best regards, Andreas
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