Mocking a web-service

Question

I have to integrate with a third-party web-service (behind firewall), and I do have their WSDL and proxy class. I want to develop the client stuff outside the firewall.

What is the best approach to mock the web-service to ease integration with them?

Do I create a web-service project on my side? Somehow use their proxy classes ad mock the methods? This would create the service references so I can just change the target URL when the time comes. Or do I create a service layer that returns mock classes in my dev. environment but would use real web-services at run-time? The former approach would take a lot of work, I would think.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

仅使用WSDL，您就可以使用soapUI托管模拟服务。

Answer 2

I've used the latter approach to good effect in our projects. I've usually found that my apps use a subset of the functionality exposed by a given web service's API, to it's usually made good sense to expose a simpler API to my client code that's more streamlined and that reflects the workflow of my client better. So, since the way I typically use web services already involves writing an abstraction layer, replacing the endpoint on the other side of my adapter classes with a mock service is a very low-friction way to test interaction with the service.