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# Testing API requests

When testing HTTP requests you need to create mock responses based on what would actually be returned from a real HTTP request. Symfony's HTTPClient has support for [testing HTTP requests](https://symfony.com/doc/current/http_client.html#http-client-and-responses).

You can also use the`MockResponseFromFile` class to generate a mock response easily from a file.

## MockResponseFromFile

Allows you to load a mock request from file.

### Parameters

* `$filename (string)` File to load mock response from

### Description

Body file is loaded from `{$filename}`

The optional info file is loaded from `{$filename}.info.php` and must contain the `$info` variable (array). By default mock responses return a 200 status code which you can change by setting the `$info` array.

### Usage

The following code loads `./responses/api-test.json` and if it exists `./responses/api-test.json.info.php` to create a mock response.

```php
use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\MockHttpClient;
use Strata\Data\Api_DELETE\RestApi;
use Strata\Data\Response\MockResponseFromFile;

$responses = [
    new MockResponseFromFile(__DIR__ . '/responses/api-test.json'),
];

$api = new RestApi('https://example.com/');
$api->setClient(new MockHttpClient($responses, 'https://example.com/'));

$response = $api->get('test');

// Outputs:404
echo $response->getStatusCode();

// Outputs: JSON response content
echo $response->getContent();

// Outputs: 0
echo $api->getHeader($response, 'X-Total-Results');
```

#### ./responses/api-test.json

```javascript
{
  "message": "PAGE NOT FOUND"
}
```

#### ./responses/api-test.json.info.php

```php
<?php
$info = [
    'http_code' => 404,
    'response_headers' => [
        'X-Total-Results' => '0'
    ]
];
```

See [ResponseInterface::getInfo()](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Contracts/HttpClient/ResponseInterface.php) for possible info, the most common are:

* `http_code (int)` - the last HTTP response code
* `response_headers (array)` - an array of response headers


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