Mock policy

Mock responses

Mocking in Azure API Management is a useful mechanism for API consumers to interact with APIs without waiting for the backend to be ready.

• Open the Star Wars API and select + Add Operation
• Create a new GET operation:
  • Display name: Get Film
  • Name: get-film
  • URL: /film

• In the Responses configuration tab, press + Add response, return 200 OK with a representation with content type application/json and this sample data:

  {
    "count": 1,
    "films": [{ "title": "A New Hope", "release-date": "05/25/1977" }]
  }
  

  

• Press Save.
• Open the Inbound processing Code View

• Add Mock Response under Other policies after the <base /> tag.

  <inbound>
      <base />
      <mock-response status-code="200" content-type="application/json" />
  </inbound>
  

  

• Invoke the API to receive a 200 success with the mocked film data.

  

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