Ember CLI http-mock as Addon - ember.js

Question

I'm using Ember CLI's http-mock feature to mock REST API endpoints, but I'd like to use it in multiple Ember CLI applications. I thought an addon would be a great solution to this, but I can't seem to get it to work. Does Ember Addon support http-mock?
Here's what I did.
Created an add on
$ ember addon my-http-mock
Then I created a simple test endpoint in the addon
$ ember g http-mock users
After publishing it to my github repository, I imported it into an Ember CLI project like this in package.json
"dependencies": {
"my-http-mock": "git://github.com/git-username/my-http-mock"
}
After npm installing it, I ran my app, but going to http://localhost:4200/api/users doesn't go to the API endpoint, and instead tries to load the Ember app.
Is there any way to use http-mock in multiple applications?

Answer 1

You'll need to have your addon implement the serverMiddleware and you can add middleware, or routes, to the http-mock running in the consuming ember-cli application.
Advanced Addon customization in ember-cli docs
That hook get's passed a config object that has the express app instance on it at config.app. You can then add whatever you'd like to do. If you're using the generated http-mock in the addon, it'd look something like this
{
name: 'my-http-mock',
serverMiddleware: function(config) {
// To require ALL mocks from your addon
var server = require('./server');
server(config.app);
// To require individual mocks
var users = require('./server/mocks/users');
users(config.app);
}
}
This is untested code but should work. The require all mocks one could possibly conflict in a weird way because it adds the bodyparser middleware and connect-restreamer and it probably already has that included if your app already has those from it's local http-mock. Try it out though! :)
note: This answer is in reference to using ember-cli 0.1.2