A caching proxy for local development
Developers often need to integrate with third-party webservices, even when developing locally. These third-party webservices can lead to slower development speed. Catchy helps you speed back up!
- Start Catchy from the commandline, providing the hostnames of your third-party webservices and how to cache them.
- Cachy will automatically configure itself as your system proxy.
- The first time Catchy sees a request that matches a provided hostname, it passes through the request and caches the response.
- For all subsequent requests, Catchy returns the cached response.
Catchy comes with a couple of "caching strategies" out of the box:
- Cache By REST request -- for each unique URL / HTTP Method / request body, cache the corresponding response.
- Cache By SOAP body -- caches by the SOAP request body (excluding SOAP headers), because SOAP requests can have freqently changing SOAP headers.
You can add your own strategy by implementing an ICacheStrategy.
This application has been tested on Windows 10. It should in theory work on Mac OS and Linux, but has not been tested.
For example, if you're developing an application that integrates with two REST APIs,
worldtimeapi.org and hn.algolia.com, you could configure Catchy like this:
C:\> Catchy --CacheByRestRequest worldtimeapi.org --CacheByRestRequest hn.algolia.com
For now, you need to download the source and build it using the dotnet command line or Visual Studio 2017. If there's interest, this could be bundled as a dotnet global tool in the future.
Catchy is a C# .NET Core application, using the Titanium Web Proxy. I'd love contributors to help out with this! If you're contributing code, please try to include unit tests with your code changes.