Hedgehog servant will eat all your servant bugs.
Define your servant API endpoints and automatically derive request generators for them!
This is accomplished using the genRequest
and the heterogeneous list, called
GList
, that contains all the generators needed for your API.
So, what do we actually need to do?
- Define our API (below
SimplestApi
). - Define generators for each element that gets captured in the request.
- Call the function
genRequest
with a proxy for the API (Proxy @SimplestApi
) and all generators needed in a generator list (GList
)!
In code this looks like:
-- POST /cats
type SimplestApi =
"my" :> "cats" :> ReqBody '[JSON] Cat :> Post '[JSON] ()
-- Generate a request to the Cat API from a base URL
catRequestGen :: BaseUrl -> Gen Request
catRequestGen baseUrl =
genRequest (Proxy @SimplestApi) (genCat :*: GNil) <&>
\makeReq -> makeReq baseUrl
We construct generator lists with element1 :*: element2 :*: ... elementN :*: GNil
,
where GNil
denotes the end of the generator list. The genRequest
function
will derive a request from the generators in the list. This includes request
bodies, headers and query parameters.
Note: since the generator list may contain many generators for a specific type,
the first one will be chosen. This means that for types that may collide (e.g.
common types like String
,Integer
etc), you should define newtype wrappers.