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Backend tests currently serve hand-written responses from httptest servers, so they only check what the test author expected a forge to send. This adds internal/httpreplay, which records real API traffic to fixture files and replays it in tests without network access, plus a first set of replay tests for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo and Bitbucket.
How it works
httpreplay.Client(t) returns an *http.Client to pass to a backend constructor:
Replay (default). Responses come from testdata/replay/<test name>.json next to the test. Subtests map to nested directories. A missing fixture fails the test with a hint to record it. The test also fails on a request that isn't in the recording, or on a recorded request that is never made. This happens on t directly, not only through the returned error, because some backends throw request errors away (Gitea's Repos().Get ignores a failed topics fetch, for example).
Record. With FORGE_RECORD=1, requests go to the real API through http.DefaultTransport, and the exchanges are written when the test passes. A failing test writes nothing, so a bad recording can't overwrite a good one.
Matching. Requests match on method, full URL and body. Each recorded exchange is used once, in recorded order, so repeated identical requests get their responses back in sequence.
What gets stored. Only the method, URL and body of each request are kept, so a token sent in a header can't end up in a fixture. Response headers are kept because the SDKs read them (Link for pagination, rate limit headers, X-GitHub-Request-Id), except Set-Cookie, which is dropped. Bodies are stored as text, or as base64 when they aren't valid UTF-8. Fixtures are indented JSON with HTML escaping off, so they diff cleanly.
The package has no dependencies outside the standard library and builds for the js and wasip1 targets.
Replay tests
The tests are named TestReplay* and were recorded anonymously against public repositories:
Backend
Host and repository
Covered
GitHub
api.github.com, octocat/Hello-World
Repos().Get, not found → ErrNotFound, Branches().List, Files().Get, Commits().ResolveCommit with an abbreviated SHA
GitLab
gitlab.com, gitlab-org/gitlab-test
Repos().Get, not found, Branches().List across two pages capped by Limit, Files().Get
Gitea/Forgejo
codeberg.org, Codeberg/Documentation
Repos().Get (including the topics request), not found, Branches().List, Files().Get with base64 decoding
Bitbucket
api.bitbucket.org, tutorials/markdowndemo
Repos().Get, not found
To re-record, for example after adding a test or when an API changes:
FORGE_RECORD=1 go test ./github -run TestReplayGetRepo
The GitLab replay test has the same !tinygo build tag as the other GitLab tests, so go test -tags=tinygo ./gitlab is unaffected. The README gets a Testing section that covers recording, replay and the fixture rules.
Testing
internal/httpreplay/httpreplay_test.go records against an httptest server and then replays with the server closed. It covers JSON, binary, 404 and POST bodies, repeated identical requests that return different responses, Link and Content-Type headers, and checks that neither the Authorization token nor the cookie reaches the fixture. Other tests cover: unmatched requests and body mismatches failing the test, unused recordings failing the test, no fixture written when a test fails, empty and invalid fixtures, unknown body encodings, fixture paths for subtests, and Client in both modes.
I removed the topics exchange from the Gitea fixture to check that the replay test fails, even though the backend discards that error. The test failed as expected.
I ran the replay tests with HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY pointing at a closed port, and they still passed, so nothing reaches the network.
gofmt, go vet ./..., go test -race ./..., go test -tags=tinygo ./gitlab, the js and wasip1 wasm builds and golangci-lint v2.14.0 all pass.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Documentation
Added guidance for running tests and recording or replaying API response fixtures.
Tests
Added recorded-response tests for repository, branch, file, and commit operations across supported hosting services, including missing-repository cases. These tests verify results without relying on live API responses.
Backend tests serve hand-written responses from httptest servers, so they
only check what the author expected a forge to send. Add internal/httpreplay,
which records real API traffic to fixture files and replays it without
network access:
- httpreplay.Client(t) returns an *http.Client. By default it serves the
responses in testdata/replay/<test name>.json and fails the test on a
request that is not in the recording or a recorded request that is never
made, since some backends discard request errors.
- With FORGE_RECORD=1 requests go to the real API and the exchanges are
written when the test passes. Only the method, URL and body of a request
are stored, so tokens sent in headers never reach a fixture, and
Set-Cookie response headers are dropped. Non-UTF-8 bodies are stored as
base64.
- Identical requests replay their responses in recorded order, and request
bodies are part of the match.
Add TestReplay* tests recorded from api.github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org
and api.bitbucket.org covering repository lookup, not found errors, branch
listing (including GitLab pagination), file contents and GitHub commit
resolution. Document recording and replay in the README.
Fixesgit-pkgs#23
The change adds internal/httpreplay to record HTTP exchanges or replay test fixtures. It adds tests for the replay client and recorded-response tests with fixtures for Bitbucket, Gitea, GitHub, and GitLab. The README documents how to run tests and record fixtures.
Changes: HTTP replay
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Recording and replay engine internal/httpreplay/httpreplay.go, README.md
Client selects recording when FORGE_RECORD=1 and replay otherwise. Recording stores request and response data and writes fixtures if the test passes. Replay matches requests and reconstructs responses. The README documents test and fixture use.
Replay tests check repository retrieval, not-found errors, branch listing, and file retrieval across four providers. GitHub tests also check commit resolution. Recorded fixtures provide successful and error responses, including paginated GitLab branch responses.
sequenceDiagram
participant Test
participant Client as httpreplay.Client
participant Recorder
participant Transport as http.DefaultTransport
participant Fixture
participant Replayer
alt Recording enabled
Test->>Client: Send HTTP request
Client->>Recorder: Forward request
Recorder->>Transport: Send request
Transport-->>Recorder: Return response
Recorder-->>Test: Return response
Test->>Recorder: Complete test
Recorder->>Fixture: Write interactions if test passes
else Replay mode
Client->>Fixture: Load test fixture
Test->>Client: Send HTTP request
Client->>Replayer: Match method, URL, and body
Replayer->>Fixture: Read matching interaction
Replayer-->>Test: Return reconstructed response
end
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Suggested reviewers:andrew
Merge Risk: Low · up to 867db
This adds test-only HTTP replay tooling, so production behavior is unchanged. Re-recording fixtures can still silently produce an incomplete fixture after a swallowed error, and binary request bodies cannot be replayed. Both are small issues that can be fixed before or shortly after merge.
Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 867db
Normal replay cannot contact the network. Live recording requires explicit opt-in, and the added provider tests use empty credentials for read-only requests against public repositories. No material security regression was identified in these paths.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The added provider entrypoints supply empty credentials and perform repository, branch, file, commit-resolution, and not-found reads against fixed public targets. Their new recording exposure is limited to the test process's outbound requests and local fixture files, rather than a newly deployed service or privileged production entrypoint.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Live recording accepts API response data into local JSON fixtures only after explicit mode selection and successful test cleanup. Default replay does not forward fixture-derived redirects or pagination requests to a live transport; subsequent requests must also match recorded exchanges.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Before extending recordings to authenticated or private-data operations, define a policy for sensitive query parameters, payloads, and response headers, with validation before fixture persistence. This is future-use hardening, not an observed disclosure in the current public read-only tests.
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Issue #23 has four coding requirements: (1) record real forge API responses to fixture files, (2) replay those fixtures without network access, (3) keep tests deterministic and fast without hand-writt…
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All changed areas trace to issue #23. internal/httpreplay/httpreplay.go and its tests implement the record and replay client. The TestReplay* files and their testdata/replay fixtures exercise th…
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The title "Add recorded HTTP replay for backend tests" matches the main change. The PR adds the internal/httpreplay package, which records real forge API exchanges as fixtures and replays them in tests. It also adds TestReplay* coverage for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and Bitbucket. The title is concise, specific, and free of file lists or vague terms.
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Issue #23 has four coding requirements: (1) record real forge API responses to fixture files, (2) replay those fixtures without network access, (3) keep tests deterministic and fast without hand-written mocks, and (4) support re-recording when tests or APIs change. The PR meets each one based on the whole-PR summary. (1) internal/httpreplay/httpreplay.go adds Client(t testing.TB) *http.Client. With FORGE_RECORD=1, it sends requests through http.DefaultTransport and writes fixtures under testdata/replay/ when the test passes. (2) Without FORGE_RECORD, the client serves responses from fixtures and fails the test on unmatched requests. The PR description reports a proxy check against a closed port, which supports the no-network claim. (3) TestReplay* tests for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo and Bitbucket use committed fixtures, including github/testdata/replay/*.json, gitlab/testdata/replay/*.json, gitea/testdata/replay/*.json and bitbucket/testdata/replay/*.json. (4) The README Testing section and the replay test comments document the FORGE_RECORD=1 re-record command. Assessment relies on the whole-PR summary and PR description. I did not read the full source diff. The test pass results are author-reported.
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All changed areas trace to issue #23. internal/httpreplay/httpreplay.go and its tests implement the record and replay client. The TestReplay* files and their testdata/replay fixtures exercise that client against real forge APIs. The README change documents recording and replay. The GitLab replay test uses the existing !tinygo build tag, so the tinygo build is unaffected. The internal/httpreplay/testdata/replay/TestClientReplaysFixture.json fixture supports the package's own tests. One detail goes beyond the PR description: the summary says the recorder omits Content-Length as well as Set-Cookie. This is a replay-correctness choice inside the same recorder and does not indicate unrelated work. No unrelated change was found in the summary.
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Review comments at @internal/httpreplay/httpreplay.go:
- Line 139: Update recordedRequest body handling so binary request bytes survive
JSON serialization unchanged: store request-body encoding metadata and use a
reversible encoding for non-text bodies. Apply the same encoding-aware
representation when matching replay requests, while preserving the existing
behavior for text bodies and fixtures.
- Around line 119-120: Track request, transport, and response body read failures
across the recording flow, and ensure any such failure prevents cleanup from
writing or overwriting a fixture. Propagate or retain each failure so it cannot
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Prevent failed exchanges from producing incomplete fixtures.
If a backend discards a transport error, this return does not fail the test or retain the failed exchange. Cleanup can then overwrite a valid fixture with an incomplete recording. The next replay fails because that request has no match.
Track recording failures and prevent fixture writes after any failed exchange. Apply the same handling to request-body and response-body read errors.
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Review comment at @internal/httpreplay/httpreplay.go around lines 119 - 120:
Track request, transport, and response body read failures across the recording flow, and ensure any such failure prevents cleanup from writing or overwriting a fixture. Propagate or retain each failure so it cannot be silently discarded, including errors from both request-body and response-body reads.
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Preserve binary request bodies in fixtures.
If a request body contains 0xff, string(reqBody) retains that byte, but JSON encoding replaces it with U+FFFD. Go 1.26.7 documents this replacement. (raw.githubusercontent.com) The recorded body therefore differs from the original bytes, so replay rejects the same request at Line 184.
Add request-body encoding metadata and use lossless encoding when storing and matching binary bodies.
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Review comment at @internal/httpreplay/httpreplay.go at line 139:
Update recordedRequest body handling so binary request bytes survive JSON serialization unchanged: store request-body encoding metadata and use a reversible encoding for non-text bodies. Apply the same encoding-aware representation when matching replay requests, while preserving the existing behavior for text bodies and fixtures.
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Fixes #23.
Backend tests currently serve hand-written responses from
httptestservers, so they only check what the test author expected a forge to send. This addsinternal/httpreplay, which records real API traffic to fixture files and replays it in tests without network access, plus a first set of replay tests for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo and Bitbucket.How it works
httpreplay.Client(t)returns an*http.Clientto pass to a backend constructor:testdata/replay/<test name>.jsonnext to the test. Subtests map to nested directories. A missing fixture fails the test with a hint to record it. The test also fails on a request that isn't in the recording, or on a recorded request that is never made. This happens ontdirectly, not only through the returned error, because some backends throw request errors away (Gitea'sRepos().Getignores a failed topics fetch, for example).FORGE_RECORD=1, requests go to the real API throughhttp.DefaultTransport, and the exchanges are written when the test passes. A failing test writes nothing, so a bad recording can't overwrite a good one.Linkfor pagination, rate limit headers,X-GitHub-Request-Id), exceptSet-Cookie, which is dropped. Bodies are stored as text, or as base64 when they aren't valid UTF-8. Fixtures are indented JSON with HTML escaping off, so they diff cleanly.The package has no dependencies outside the standard library and builds for the js and wasip1 targets.
Replay tests
The tests are named
TestReplay*and were recorded anonymously against public repositories:octocat/Hello-WorldRepos().Get, not found →ErrNotFound,Branches().List,Files().Get,Commits().ResolveCommitwith an abbreviated SHAgitlab-org/gitlab-testRepos().Get, not found,Branches().Listacross two pages capped byLimit,Files().GetCodeberg/DocumentationRepos().Get(including the topics request), not found,Branches().List,Files().Getwith base64 decodingtutorials/markdowndemoRepos().Get, not foundTo re-record, for example after adding a test or when an API changes:
FORGE_RECORD=1 go test ./github -run TestReplayGetRepoThe GitLab replay test has the same
!tinygobuild tag as the other GitLab tests, sogo test -tags=tinygo ./gitlabis unaffected. The README gets a Testing section that covers recording, replay and the fixture rules.Testing
internal/httpreplay/httpreplay_test.gorecords against anhttptestserver and then replays with the server closed. It covers JSON, binary, 404 and POST bodies, repeated identical requests that return different responses,LinkandContent-Typeheaders, and checks that neither theAuthorizationtoken nor the cookie reaches the fixture. Other tests cover: unmatched requests and body mismatches failing the test, unused recordings failing the test, no fixture written when a test fails, empty and invalid fixtures, unknown body encodings, fixture paths for subtests, andClientin both modes.HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXYpointing at a closed port, and they still passed, so nothing reaches the network.gofmt,go vet ./...,go test -race ./...,go test -tags=tinygo ./gitlab, the js and wasip1 wasm builds andgolangci-lintv2.14.0 all pass.Summary by CodeRabbit