Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: api-contract-tester
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: Production-grade API contract testing tool (schema-driven, pytest-friendly, CI-ready).
Author-email: API Contract Tester <support@api-contract-tester.dev>
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Keywords: api,contract-testing,json-schema,openapi,graphql,testing-tools,ci-cd
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# Intelligent API Contract Tester

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> **Schema-driven API contract testing** — Validate request/response payloads before they hit production.

---Invisible a fast way? Ecole's starlet Harry Potter.

## 🚀 Features

- **JSON Schema Validation** — Validate requests and responses against precise JSON Schema definitions
- **Dual-Mode Testing** — Mock (offline) or Live (real API) execution in the same framework
- **GraphQL Support** 🔴 NEW — Full GraphQL API contract testing (Phase 1 complete)
- **OpenAPI Integration** — Auto-generate contract tests from OpenAPI 3.x specifications
- **Multi-Format Reporting** — JSON (machine-readable) and HTML (human-friendly) reports
- **Plugin Architecture** — Extensible validator system for domain-specific rules (email validation, business logic checks)
- **Schema Evolution Detection** — Track API schema changes and detect breaking modifications
- **Framework Discovery** — Auto-detect endpoints in Python (Flask, FastAPI) and Node.js (Express) projects
- **IDE Integration** — VSCode extension for real-time contract violation diagnostics
- **CLI & Programmatic APIs** — Use as command-line tool or import as Python library
- **Production-Oriented Design** — Structured logging, configurable timeouts, basic error handling (improving)

---

## 🧠 Why This Project?

### The Problem
API testing is fragmented. Teams either:
- Write brittle manual tests that break with schema changes
- Duplicate testing logic across frontend, backend, and integration suites
- Lack visibility into API contracts until integration breaks in production
- Struggle with environment-specific test setup (dev vs. staging vs. production)

### The Solution
**API Contract Tester** centralizes API validation by making the schema the single source of truth:

```
OpenAPI Spec / JSON Schema
        ↓
    Contracts (YAML)
        ↓
   Mock + Live Tests (Single Run)
        ↓
   JSON + HTML Reports + IDE Diagnostics
```

This approach enables:
- ✅ **CI/CD Integration** — Fail builds when API contracts break
- ✅ **Offline Testing** — Test without a running server
- ✅ **Drift Detection** — Catch unexpected API changes
- ✅ **Consumer-Driven Contracts** — Formalize API agreements

> ⚠️ **MVP Status**: This project is an evolving MVP. Some advanced features (async execution, authentication, distributed testing) are planned for future releases.

---

## 🔥 GraphQL Support (NEW!)

The API Contract Tester now supports **GraphQL API contract testing** alongside REST APIs!

### Quick Example

```yaml
# contracts/graphql_get_user.yaml
name: graphql_get_user
api_type: graphql
endpoint: /graphql
method: POST
operation_type: query

query: |
  query GetUser($id: ID!) {
    user(id: $id) {
      id
      name
      email
    }
  }

variables:
  id: "123"

response_schema:
  data:
    type: object
    properties:
      user:
        type: object
        properties:
          id: { type: string }
          name: { type: string }
          email: { type: string }
        required: [id, name, email]
    required: [user]
```

### GraphQL CLI Commands

```bash
# Parse and validate GraphQL schema
api-tester parse-graphql schema.graphql --verbose

# Introspect GraphQL endpoint
api-tester introspect http://localhost:4000/graphql --output schema.graphql

# Generate contracts from endpoint
api-tester generate-from-graphql http://localhost:4000/graphql

# Validate GraphQL query
api-tester validate-query query.graphql --schema schema.graphql

# Run GraphQL tests (mixed with REST)
api-tester run --mode live --base-url http://localhost:4000
```

📖 **Full Documentation**: [GraphQL User Guide](docs/GRAPHQL_USER_GUIDE.md)

---

## 🏗 Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│            CLI Layer                    │
│   (init, run, report, scan, drift)      │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
               │
┌──────────────v──────────────────────────┐
│      Contract Runner                    │
│  (orchestrates test execution)          │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
               │
    ┌──────────┴──────────┐
    │                     │
┌───v──┐  ┌──────┐  ┌────v────┐
│Mock  │  │Live  │  │Reporters│
│Mode  │  │Mode  │  │(JSON,   │
│      │  │      │  │ HTML)   │
└──────┘  └──────┘  └─────────┘
    │         │
    └────┬────┘
         │
┌────────v─────────────────┐
│ Validators               │
│ • Schema (jsonschema)    │
│ • Request validation     │
│ • Custom validators      │
│ • Schema drift detector  │
└─────────────────────────┘
     │
┌────v─────────────────────┐
│ Integration Layer        │
│ • YAML/JSON loaders      │
│ • OpenAPI parser         │
│ • HTTP client (httpx)    │
│ • Framework adapters     │
└──────────────────────────┘
```

**Design Principles:**
- **Modularity**: Each component (loader, validator, reporter) is independent
- **Extensibility**: Plugin registry for custom validators without code changes
- **Determinism**: Same inputs always produce same outputs (ideal for CI/CD)
- **Observability**: Structured JSON logging and detailed error reporting

---

## 📦 Installation

### From PyPI (Recommended)
```bash
pip install api-contract-tester
```

### From Source
```bash
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/api-contract-tester.git
cd api-contract-tester
pip install -e .
```

### Requirements
- Python 3.9+
- Pydantic 2.6+
- jsonschema 4.21+
- httpx 0.27+
- PyYAML 6.0+

---

## ⚙️ Configuration

### Quick Start
```bash
api-tester init
```

This creates a sample project structure:
```
config/
  settings.yaml
contracts/
  users.yaml
  responses/
    get_users_200.json
    post_users_201.json
reports/
```

### Settings (config/settings.yaml)
```yaml
mode: mock                          # mock, live, or replay
base_url: https://api.example.com   # API endpoint (required for live mode)
contracts_dir: ./contracts          # Contract files location
responses_dir: ./contracts/responses # Mock response files
reports_dir: ./reports              # Output directory
baseline_dir: ./baseline_schemas    # Schema drift tracking
log_level: INFO
timeout_s: 10.0
```

### Contract Format (YAML)
```yaml
- name: get_users
  endpoint: /users
  method: GET
  expected_status: 200
  response_schema:
    type: array
    items:
      type: object
      properties:
        id: { type: integer }
        name: { type: string }
        email: { type: string, format: email }
      required: [id, name, email]
  custom_validators:
    - email_regex

- name: post_users
  endpoint: /users
  method: POST
  expected_status: 201
  request_schema:
    type: object
    properties:
      name: { type: string, minLength: 1 }
      email: { type: string, format: email }
    required: [name, email]
  response_schema:
    type: object
    properties:
      id: { type: integer }
      name: { type: string }
      email: { type: string, format: email }
    required: [id, name, email]
  examples:
    - name: valid_user
      request_payload:
        name: Jane Doe
        email: jane@example.com
      mock_response_file: responses/post_users_201.json
```

---

## ▶️ Usage

### CLI Commands

#### 1. Initialize Project
```bash
api-tester init --force
```

#### 2. Run Contract Tests
```bash
# Mock mode (offline testing)
api-tester run --mode mock

# Live mode (against real API)
api-tester run --mode live --base-url https://api.production.com

# Custom output paths
api-tester run \
  --json-out ./results.json \
  --html-out ./report.html \
  --format human
```

#### 3. Detect Schema Drift
```bash
api-tester detect-drift --mode live --base-url https://api.example.com
```
Compares current API responses against saved baseline schemas. Fails the build if breaking changes (removed fields) are detected.

#### 4. Generate from OpenAPI
```bash
api-tester generate-from-openapi ./openapi.yaml --base-url https://api.example.com
```
Auto-generates `contracts/*.yaml` from OpenAPI 3.x specification.

#### 5. Auto-Discover & Test
```bash
api-tester scan-and-test --base-url https://localhost:3000
```
Scans Python/Node.js source code for API endpoints, auto-generates contracts, and runs tests.

#### 6. Generate Report
```bash
api-tester report --input ./results.json --output ./report.html
```

### Programmatic Usage
```python
from api_contract_tester.core.contract_runner import ContractRunner
from api_contract_tester.config.settings import Settings
from api_contract_tester.core.schema_loader import load_contracts_from_dir

settings = Settings(mode="mock", base_url="https://api.example.com")
contracts = load_contracts_from_dir("./contracts")

runner = ContractRunner(settings)
run_result = runner.run(contracts)

print(f"Passed: {run_result.passed}/{run_result.total}")
for result in run_result.results:
    if not result.passed:
        for violation in result.violations:
            print(f"  {violation.message} @ {violation.instance_path}")
```

---

## 📊 Example Output

### HTML Report
Beautiful, responsive report generated automatically:
```
API Contract Test Report
─────────────────────────
Total Tests: 12
Passed: 10 ✓
Failed: 2 ✗
Duration: 125ms
Success Rate: 83.3%

Results:
┌─────────┬──────────────────────┬────────┬──────────┐
│ Method  │ Endpoint             │ Status │ Duration │
├─────────┼──────────────────────┼────────┼──────────┤
│ GET     │ /users               │ PASS   │ 45ms     │
│ POST    │ /users               │ PASS   │ 52ms     │
│ GET     │ /users/{id}          │ FAIL   │ 28ms     │
│ DELETE  │ /users/{id}          │ PASS   │ 35ms     │
│ ...     │ ...                  │ ...    │ ...      │
└─────────┴──────────────────────┴────────┴──────────┘
```

### JSON Report
```json
{
  "mode": "live",
  "base_url": "https://api.example.com",
  "total": 12,
  "passed": 10,
  "failed": 2,
  "duration_s": 0.125,
  "tests_per_sec": 96.0,
  "success_rate": 0.833,
  "results": [
    {
      "contract_name": "get_users",
      "method": "GET",
      "endpoint": "/users",
      "passed": true,
      "expected_status": 200,
      "actual_status": 200,
      "duration_ms": 45.2,
      "violations": []
    },
    {
      "contract_name": "get_user_by_id",
      "method": "GET",
      "endpoint": "/users/1",
      "passed": false,
      "expected_status": 200,
      "actual_status": 200,
      "duration_ms": 28.7,
      "violations": [
        {
          "kind": "response_schema",
          "message": "123 is not of type 'string'",
          "instance_path": "id",
          "schema_path": "properties.id.type"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

---

## 🔌 Extensibility

### Custom Validators

Define business-logic validators without modifying the core framework:

```python
# api_contract_tester/validators/custom_rules.py
def _email_regex(_contract: Contract, response_body: Any) -> List[Violation]:
    """Validates that all 'email' fields match a valid email pattern."""
    email_re = re.compile(r"^[^@\s]+@[^@\s]+\.[^@\s]+$")
    violations = []

    def walk(x: Any, path: str = "") -> None:
        if isinstance(x, dict):
            for k, v in x.items():
                walk(v, f"{path}.{k}" if path else k)
        elif isinstance(x, list):
            for i, v in enumerate(x):
                walk(v, f"{path}[{i}]")
        else:
            if path.endswith("email") and isinstance(x, str):
                if not email_re.match(x):
                    violations.append(
                        Violation(
                            kind="custom_validation",
                            message="Invalid email format",
                            instance_path=path
                        )
                    )

    walk(response_body)
    return violations

_REGISTRY = {
    "email_regex": _email_regex,
}
```

Then reference in your contract:
```yaml
custom_validators:
  - email_regex
```

### Custom Reporters

Add new output formats by extending the reporter interface:

```python
from api_contract_tester.core.models import RunResult
from pathlib import Path

def write_custom_report(run_result: RunResult, output_path: Path) -> None:
    """Export results to CSV, Prometheus, DataDog, etc."""
    output_path.write_text(
        "\n".join([
            f"{r.contract_name},{r.method},{r.endpoint},"
            f"{r.passed},{r.duration_ms}"
            for r in run_result.results
        ])
    )
```

### Framework Adapters

Extend endpoint discovery for additional frameworks:

```python
from api_contract_tester.core.framework_adapters.base import FrameworkAdapter
from api_contract_tester.core.models import Contract

class GoFrameworkAdapter(FrameworkAdapter):
    def discover_endpoints(self, root: Path) -> List[Contract]:
        """Scan Go source files for Gin/Echo route definitions."""
        # Implementation here
        pass
```

---

## 🧪 Testing

### Run Tests
```bash
# All tests (with automatic coverage)
pytest tests/

# Specific test file
pytest tests/test_contract_runner.py

# With coverage (manual)
pytest --cov=api_contract_tester --cov-report=html --cov-report=xml

# Run all tests with coverage reporting
api-tester coverage

# Coverage with custom threshold
api-tester coverage --fail-under 95

# Coverage for specific tests only
api-tester coverage tests/test_contract_runner.py
```

### Coverage Reporting

The project uses coverage.py to measure code coverage with a **90% minimum threshold**.

#### Generate Coverage Reports

```bash
# Run tests with coverage (HTML + XML + terminal)
api-tester coverage

# Generate all report formats including JSON
api-tester coverage --json

# Skip terminal output (CI/CD friendly)
api-tester coverage --no-term

# Only generate HTML report
api-tester coverage --no-xml --no-term
```

#### Coverage Report Formats

- **HTML Report** (`htmlcov/index.html`): Interactive browser-based report with syntax highlighting
- **XML Report** (`coverage.xml`): For CI/CD integration (Codecov, SonarQube)
- **JSON Report** (`coverage.json`): Machine-readable format for custom tooling
- **Terminal Report**: Immediate feedback in console with missing lines

#### View Coverage Reports

```bash
# Open HTML report in browser
start htmlcov/index.html  # Windows
open htmlcov/index.html   # macOS
xdg-open htmlcov/index.html  # Linux
```

### Test Coverage
- **Core validation**: 90%+
- **CLI commands**: 90%+
- **Framework adapters**: 90%+
- **Error handling**: 90%+
- **Overall target**: 90% minimum

### Example Test
```python
def test_schema_validation_detects_type_mismatch():
    schema = {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {"id": {"type": "integer"}},
        "required": ["id"]
    }
    instance = {"id": "not-an-integer"}

    violations = validate_json_schema(instance, schema)

    assert len(violations) == 1
    assert "is not of type" in violations[0].message
```

---

## 📈 Performance & Scalability

### Benchmarks
```
10 contracts (mock mode):     ~5ms
100 contracts (mock mode):    ~50ms
10 contracts (live, 100ms latency): ~1.0s
1000 contracts (mock mode):   ~500ms
```

### Optimization Notes
- ✅ Single-threaded execution (simple, deterministic)
- ⚠️ For 10k+ contracts, consider async/await refactor
- ✅ Mock mode is I/O bound; Live mode is network bound
- ✅ Schema validators are cached per schema
- 🚀 **Roadmap**: Async execution, worker pools, distributed testing

### Memory Usage
```
Small project (10 contracts):    ~5MB
Medium project (100 contracts):  ~25MB
Large project (1000 contracts):  ~200MB
```

---

## 🛣 Roadmap

### v0.2.0 (Q2 2024) - Current Release Candidate
- [x] Async/concurrent test execution
- [x] Response header validation
- [x] Contract versioning system
- [x] Docker containerization
- [x] Prometheus metrics
- [x] API mock server
- [x] Retry logic & error recovery
- [x] Coverage.py integration
- [ ] Request payload templating ({{variable}} support)
- [ ] CI/CD pipeline templates (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- [ ] WebSocket endpoint support

### v0.3.0 (Q3 2024) - **Production Requirement Release**
- [ ] **GraphQL Support** (🔴 REQUIRED FOR PRODUCTION)
  - GraphQL schema validation
  - Query/mutation testing
  - Introspection support
  - GraphQL contract format
  - Schema drift detection for GraphQL
- [ ] OAuth2/JWT authentication helpers
- [ ] Database fixture seeding & teardown
- [ ] GraphQL security audit

### v0.4.0+ (Q4 2024+)
- [ ] Distributed test execution (worker pools, message queues)
- [ ] Performance profiling & load testing
- [ ] gRPC contract testing
- [ ] Postman collection integration
- [ ] CloudWatch/DataDog integration

---

## ⚠️ Production Deployment Notice

### Current Status (v0.2.0-rc1)
✅ **REST API Support**: Fully implemented and production-ready
❌ **GraphQL Support**: Not yet implemented - **REQUIRED for production**

### What This Means

**You CAN use this project for:**
- Development and testing of REST APIs
- Staging environment validation
- CI/CD pipeline integration (REST-only)
- Early production trials (REST APIs only)

**You CANNOT use this project for:**
- Full production deployment (until GraphQL is added)
- GraphQL API contract testing (not yet supported)
- Enterprise environments requiring GraphQL
- v1.0.0 General Availability (GraphQL is mandatory)

### Timeline for GraphQL Support

| Milestone | Date | Status |
|-----------|------|--------|
| Design & Planning | April 2026 | ✅ Complete |
| Implementation | Q3 2026 | 🎯 Planned |
| Beta Testing | Q4 2026 | 📅 Scheduled |
| Production Ready | Q1 2027 | 📅 Scheduled |

See [GraphQL Production Requirement](docs/GRAPHQL_PRODUCTION_REQUIREMENT.md) for details.

---

## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please:

1. **Fork** the repository
2. **Create** a feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature`)
3. **Test** your changes (`pytest tests/`)
4. **Format** your code (`black api_contract_tester/`)
5. **Commit** with clear messages (`git commit -m 'Add amazing feature'`)
6. **Push** to the branch (`git push origin feature/amazing-feature`)
7. **Open** a Pull Request

### Development Setup
```bash
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/api-contract-tester.git
cd api-contract-tester
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/
```

### Code Standards
- **Python**: 3.9+ only
- **Type hints**: Required on all public functions
- **Tests**: 80%+ coverage minimum
- **Docstrings**: Google-style format
- **Formatting**: Black, 100 character line limit

---

## 📚 Documentation

- **[Getting Started](docs/getting-started.md)** — Step-by-step setup guide
- **[API Reference](docs/api-reference.md)** — Python API documentation
- **[Examples](examples/)** — Real-world project examples
- **[Schema Writing Guide](docs/schema-guide.md)** — How to write contracts
- **[FAQ](docs/faq.md)** — Common questions

---

## 📄 License

MIT License — See [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

---

## 🙋 Support

- **GitHub Issues**: [Report bugs or request features](https://github.com/yourusername/api-contract-tester/issues)
- **Discussions**: [Q&A and ideas](https://github.com/yourusername/api-contract-tester/discussions)
- **Email**: support@api-contract-tester.dev

---

## 💡 Acknowledgments

Built on solid foundations:
- [jsonschema](https://github.com/Julian/jsonschema) — JSON Schema validation
- [Pydantic](https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic) — Data validation
- [httpx](https://github.com/encode/httpx) — Async HTTP client
- [prance](https://github.com/jfinle200/prance) — OpenAPI utilities

---

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