Something close to a sandbox? Sounds cool.
On Dec 11, 10:17 am, Hamish Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Perhaps this already exists, but if not it would be great: a URL or > flag for API testing. > > Eg, all requests to this service would process the queries for only > for validity of the message (and ignore whether the status/user/ > favorite etc exists) and return an sample dataset as would be expected > of a successful request. > > Malformed requests would return the expected failure notice, and > perhaps a 'return false' flag could be added to tell the api to send > the relevant negative response for a particular request. > > Since it would have no effect on any actual data, it would not need to > be rate limited (or at least the rate could be extremely high and only > by I.P.). > > This would be great for unit testing. At the moment it's difficult to > create a testing framework that works reliably. Especially if you want > other people to be able to run the tests, but not see your twitter > password :P. For example, you have to generate a random status message > to avoid the 'ignore repeated messages' issue, and create and destroy > friendships and notifications that you've manually set up. > > It's not a biggie, but would be a very useful developer tool. > > Thanks!
