Spring MockRestServiceServer handling multiple requests to the same URI (auto-discovery)

Question

Let's say I am writing Spring integration tests for a REST service A. This service in turn hits another REST service B and gets a list of URIs to hit on REST service C. It is kind of auto-discovery pattern. I want to mock B and C responses using MockRestServiceServer.
Now the response from B is a list of URIs, they are all very similar, and for the sake of the example lets say my response from B is like so:

{
    uris: ["/stuff/1.json", "/stuff/2.json", "/stuff/39.json", "/stuff/47.json"]
}

Simply service A will append each of them onto base URL for service C and make those requests.
Mocking B is easy since it is only 1 request.
Mocking C is a hassle as I would have to mock every single URI to appropriate mock response. I want to automate it!
So first I write my own matcher to match not a full URL, but part of it:

public class RequestContainsUriMatcher implements RequestMatcher {
    private final String uri;

    public RequestContainsUriMatcher(String uri){
        this.uri = uri;
    }

    @Override
    public void match(ClientHttpRequest clientHttpRequest) throws IOException, AssertionError {
        assertTrue(clientHttpRequest.getURI().contains(uri));
    }
}

This works fine as now I can do this:

public RequestMatcher requestContainsUri(String uri) {
    return new RequestContainsUriMatcher(uri);
}

MockRestServiceServer.createServer(restTemplate)
            .expect(requestContainsUri("/stuff"))
            .andExpect(method(HttpMethod.GET))
            .andRespond(/* I will get to response creator */);

Now all I need is a response creator that knows the full request URL and where the mock data sits (I will have it as json files in test resources folder):

public class AutoDiscoveryCannedDataResponseCreator implements ResponseCreator {
    private final Function<String, String> cannedDataBuilder;

    public AutoDiscoveryCannedDataResponseCreator(Function<String, String> cannedDataBuilder) {
        this.cannedDataBuilder = cannedDataBuilder;
    }

    @Override
    public ClientHttpResponse createResponse(ClientHttpRequest clientHttpRequest) throws IOException {
        return withSuccess(cannedDataBuilder.apply(requestUri), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
                    .createResponse(clientHttpRequest);
    }
}

Now stuff is easy, I have to write a builder that takes request URI as a string and returns mock data, as a String! Brilliant!

public ResponseCreator withAutoDetectedCannedData() {
    Function<String, String> cannedDataBuilder = new Function<String, String>() {
        @Override
        public String apply(String requestUri) {
            //logic to get the canned data based on URI
            return cannedData;
        }
    };

    return new AutoDiscoveryCannedDataResponseCreator(cannedDataBuilder);
}

MockRestServiceServer.createServer(restTemplate)
            .expect(requestContainsUri("/stuff"))
            .andExpect(method(HttpMethod.GET))
            .andRespond(withAutoDetectedCannedData());

It works fine! .... For the first request.
After the first request (/stuff/1.json) my MockRestServiceServer responds with message "Assertion error: no further requests expected".
Basically, I can make as many requests to that MockRestServiceServer as there were .expect() calls on it. And since I had only 1 of them, only first request will go through.
Is there a way around it? I really don't want to mock service C 10 or 20 times...

Answer 1

If you look at the MockRestServiceServer class, it supports two 'expect()' methods. The first defaults to 'ExpectedCount.once()' but the second method allows you change this value

public ResponseActions expect(RequestMatcher matcher) {
    return this.expect(ExpectedCount.once(), matcher);
}

public ResponseActions expect(ExpectedCount count, RequestMatcher matcher) {
    return this.expectationManager.expectRequest(count, matcher);
}

I found this ticket MockRestServiceServer should allow for an expectation to occur multiple times which outlines some options for second method.

In your case I think adding static import and using the manyTimes() method is neater code than the for loop

MockRestServiceServer
            .expect(manyTimes(), requestContainsUri("/stuff"))
            .andExpect(method(HttpMethod.GET))

Other options are

once();
manyTimes();
times(5);
min(2);
max(8);
between(3,6);