Impostor is a mock server that uses a human readable, plain text format for defining mocks.
Here's how you might define a mock for a simple API:
GET /hello
HTTP 200
Content-Type: text/plain
`hello, world!`
For a tour of Impostor that goes into more detail, see the tour of Impostor.
There are currently two ways to use Impostor:
-
Download a release from the releases page and place it in your
PATH. -
Install from cargo:
cargo install impostor_cli
Either way, you should be able to run impostor with impostor --help.
Impostor aims to be:
- Simple: Impostor should be intuitive and straightforward, and complex features that make it harder to reason about how a mock works should be avoided. Like Hurl, Impostor aims to keep its format close to HTTP.
- Easy: Impostor's user-facing API should be easy and delightful to use, and new users should be able to get started quickly.
- Fast: Impostor should compile and respond to requests as fast as possible. There should be as few allocations as possible in the request handling path.
The main goal of Impostor to make authoring mocks a much better experience, and to make it easy to share those mocks or use them in CI.
Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.
Impostor's text format is adapted from Hurl, and the parser code is derived from Hurl's. While we are adapting Hurl's format, we do not make any claims of compatibility and all issues with Impostor or its format should be reported to Impostor, not Hurl. Please don't bother the Hurl maintainers with issues related to Impostor!
Impostor is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.