[erlang-questions] Testing api with jsongen and quickcheck

[Garret Smith]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Kenneth Lakin <kennethlakin@REDACTED> wrote:
> On 08/21/2015 09:27 AM, Mark Bruch wrote:
>> Unfortunately [jsongen] doesn't compile on any of
>> my machines.
>
> It fails to compile with rebar3 on my machine, too.
>
> Stupid question, but do you have QuickCheck installed? The missing
> include files that the build whines about seem to be related to QuickCheck.
>
> I found an eqcmini GitHub project, but that doesn't seem to provide
> enough to get jsongen to build.
>
>
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Same problem with eqc.hrl here, once I replace 'make' with 'gmake'
since I'm on FreeBSD.

It's a different approach than jsongen, but I have a similar setup of
a JSON API for an Erlang codebase.
I'm using aeon* to convert JSON <=> Erlang records and sanitize the
json input along the way.
Since QuickCheck (and PropEr) can use the type info in Erlang records,
you could:
 1) Write Erlang records that correspond to your JSON
 2) Use QC/PropEr to generate the Erlang records
 3) Use aeon to convert the Erlang to JSON and call your API with it

*aeon: https://github.com/garret-smith/aeon

Yes, aeon is my own project.  Hopefully others can use it too.

-Garret