Atom Protocol Exerciser (APE)

APE is a sanity-checker for implementations of the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub or APP). It is written in Ruby, and provides a Mongrel-based HTML interface describing its interactions with the APP implementation under test.

For more information about the history and impetus for the creation of APE, see Tim Bray’s account here.

License

Copyright © 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. See the included LICENSE file for details.

Quick Start

Install APE via RubyGems:

$ gem install ape

Now, you should have the ape_server command available in your $PATH. Start the server with:

$ ape_server

This will start the server in the foreground. You can access APE in your browser at localhost:4000

Execute APE from the command line:

If you’ve downloaded APE’s source code you can execute it from the command line with ruby rake. From the root directory you can execute one of these three tasks:

$ rake ape:go:html['service document uri', 'username', 'password']
$ rake ape:go:text['service document uri', 'username', 'password']
$ rake ape:go:atom['service document uri', 'username', 'password']

The username and password parameters are not mandatory, and the format response depends on the executed task.

The Source

To access the latest source code for APE, see the project site at rubyforge.org/projects/ape