What is an easy way to stub / dummy a restful web service?

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Jimmy picture Jimmy · Jan 9, 2012 · Viewed 27.6k times · Source

I want to create an android application, this application will make RESTful calls to a web service to obtain some data.

I know what the RESTful interface will be, but I don't want the hassle of creating my own implementation. Is there an easy way to create a stub RESTful web service that will return some static data without having to write a full blown WS application to do this?

Answer

John Sheehan picture John Sheehan · Jun 27, 2013

Mocky.io allows you to create stub endpoints and specify the data they return via public URLs.

Runscope (disclaimer, I'm a founder) allows you to capture a real request once, then replay back the response as needed via Response Playback URLs.

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