Unit Testing Google's Go API Client

Question

I am currently writing a workflow in Go that uses Google's API go client. I'm relatively new to Go and am having trouble unit testing the client's services. Here is an example method that enables an API in a Google Cloud Project.

func (gcloudService *GCloudService) EnableApi(projectId string, apiId string) error {
  service, err := servicemanagement.New(gcloudService.Client)
  if err != nil {
      return err
  }

  requestBody := &servicemanagement.EnableServiceRequest{
      ConsumerId: consumerId(projectId),
  }

  _, err = service.Services.Enable(apiId, requestBody).Do()
  if err != nil {
      return err
  }

  return nil
}

GCloudService is a simple struct that holds a Client.

type GCloudService struct {
   Client *http.Client
}

This is my attempt at testing this method.

var (
  mux    *http.ServeMux
  client *http.Client
  server *httptest.Server
)

func setup() {
  // test server
  mux = http.NewServeMux()
  server = httptest.NewServer(mux)

  // client configured to use test server
  client = server.Client()
}

func teardown() {
  server.Close()
}

func TestGCloudService_EnableApi(t *testing.T) {
  setup()
  defer teardown()

  projectName := "test"
  apiId := "api"

  testGcloudService := &GCloudService{
     Client: client,
  }

  path := fmt.Sprintf("/v1/services/{%s}:enable", apiId)

  mux.HandleFunc(path,
    func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        // test things...
    })

  err := testGcloudService.EnableApi(projectName, apiId)
  if err != nil {
      t.Errorf("EnableApi returned error: %v", err)
  }
}

However, when I run this test it still hits the real Google endpoint instead of my localhost server because EnableApi uses the servicemanagement service which is configured with the API's base URL. How do I refactor this to call my server instead of the API? I am hoping to avoid mocking the entire servicemanagement service if possible.

Answer 1

Make the base url in your servicemanagement service configurable or overwritable, and if that is hidden for you, then your code is not written for test convenience, change that, and if not possible, complain to who is responsible. If that does not help, take a deep breath, and write a mock service, which is mostly not needed to be very complicated