Hi Cesar, That sounds a sensible approach to me. It would make the test more predictable and less likely to fail due to external situations.
I think writing an included “simple” weather service that just returns 200 or 40x would improve the sample. Thanks David. On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 18:47, Cesar Hernandez <cesargu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > Currently, we have a nice example for mp-custom-healthcheck but digging > into the tests, it seems the tests depends on an online service from > http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/ > > https://github.com/apache/tomee/blob/master/examples/mp-custom-healthcheck/src/test/java/org/superbiz/test/WeatherServiceTest.java#L74 > > My two cents about this dependency is that it can produce at some point > failing builds in our CI if the api.openweathermap.org is on mantainacne > or > there is some kind of dns isssue. > My proposal is to: > 1) Create a ticket to describe the problem > 2) Include in the ticket a high-level alternative to don't depend on a > third party endpoint. For example haveing two endpoints within the > exzample, one alwasy resturning 200 and another one returning always a 401 > or any other != 200 http response code. > > What do you think? > > -- > Atentamente: > César Hernández. >