optionally send API requests to a mock URL

[tomholub]

I understand we could probably do another build, to have eg enterprise/consumer/debug/mock builds where the mock build would have different URLs to call.

But that would mean we would have to build too apps for UI testing: both debug and mock if we want to test live as well as mocked version (which we do).

Is there a way to build one app but somehow toggle if it should use mock or live APIs? One idea is that the splash screen would have an actual toggle there, but that may make app code too complicated. Is there some way to run an app with parameters to one time tell it to use mock apis and other times not? (something like unix command line arguments)

[tomholub]

related to #1006

[sosnovsky]

We can send command-line arguments to iOS app using Appium processArguments capability:

app: join(process.cwd(), './FlowCrypt.app'),
processArguments: {'args': ['--mock']},

And then in the app it's possible to check which arguments were set there:

if CommandLine.arguments.contains("--mock") {
// use mock API
} else {
// use real API
}

[tomholub]

That's exactly it. Looks very doable. Thanks!

[tomholub]

@fcvakintos I can see processArguments mentioned here https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps/

Can they be set to be different for each test spec? Can they be dynamic, generated during test runtime for a particular spec?