Mock Responses in Workflow Blocks

💬 Feature Requests
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Question

When making large workflows that hit external services, what is the best way to mock their responses to test how the workflow will behave?

Current Solution

I would guess that I would have to make a code block, and a switch block that would conditionally use an external resource and pass on its response or have a code block return a mocked response.

This feels like it would get messy really quickly...

Proposed Solution

Add to the different blocks, the ability to send a mocked response. I am not sure how to control such response in my head yet, but I feel like the idea has legs.

I use the Microsoft Graph frequently and they post response schema for their endpoints. I would love to be able to paste in a mocked response somewhere on a resource block so that I can test a workflow without doing this:

  • Test run workflow
  • Open Entra panel
  • See group was created
  • Delete group
  • Come back to Retool

If I could mock the response of the block, then I wouldn't have to keep deleting a group after multiple test runs.

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Hey @khill-fbmc,

I shared this feedback internally :slightly_smiling_face: It doesn't look like this is on our roadmap yet, but I'll reach out if I hear any updates

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