Exploration & Mock of the GXDCH IF

[jjeroch]

Summary

Discuss the benefit of a GXDCH mock for automated tests.
A mock can support to reduce the impact on external applications and ensure that test environments or prototypes can get easily ramped up and used without having dependencies to external with the need of exchange of credentials as well as an up and running application of a 3rd party

Possible lowlights: the mock needs to work as the actual external applications does. Otherwise tests are false positive.

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Possible Scope:

• GXDCH
• SD Factory (since the SD Factory is again connected to the GXDCH) - without mocking the SD Factory the benefit wouldn't be given

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Linked issues:

eclipse-tractusx/sig-release#418

[arnoweiss]

If someone wants to built up a Dataspace from scratch - including the onboarding APIs - having the external dependency to GXDCH is bad. Thus having a mock for this would be great.

[evegufy]

Mocking for the sd-factory isn't necessary if used in the context of the umbrella helm chart .

[MaximilianHauer]

ticket closed as the mock would not be needed.