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Overview

Sandbox testing with test inquiry templates, ngrok tunnel for webhook testing, mock API responses for CI.

Prerequisites

• Completed persona-install-auth setup
• Valid Persona API key (sandbox or production)

Instructions

Step 1: Set Up Sandbox Environment

set -euo pipefail
# Use sandbox API key for all development
echo 'PERSONA_API_KEY=persona_sandbox_xxxxxxxx' > .env
echo 'PERSONA_API_VERSION=2023-01-05' >> .env

Step 2: Expose Local Webhooks with ngrok

# Terminal 1: Start your webhook server
npm run dev  # localhost:3000

# Terminal 2: Tunnel with ngrok
ngrok http 3000
# Copy the HTTPS URL and configure in Persona Dashboard > Webhooks

Step 3: Create Test Inquiries

import os, requests

HEADERS = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PERSONA_API_KEY']}",
    "Persona-Version": "2023-01-05",
}

# Create inquiry with sandbox template
resp = requests.post("https://withpersona.com/api/v1/inquiries", headers=HEADERS, json={
    "data": {
        "attributes": {
            "inquiry-template-id": "itmpl_YOUR_SANDBOX_TEMPLATE",
            "reference-id": f"test-{int(time.time())}",
        }
    }
})
print(f"Test inquiry: {resp.json()['data']['id']}")

Step 4: Mock API Responses for CI

import { vi } from 'vitest';

const mockPersonaApi = {
  createInquiry: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({
    data: { id: 'inq_test_123', attributes: { status: 'created', 'session-token': 'tok_xxx' } },
  }),
  getInquiry: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({
    data: { id: 'inq_test_123', attributes: { status: 'completed' } },
  }),
};

Output

• Sandbox environment configured for development
• ngrok tunnel for webhook testing
• Test inquiry creation workflow
• Mock API responses for unit tests

Error Handling

Resources

• Persona API Quickstart
• ngrok Documentation

Next Steps

Apply SDK patterns: persona-sdk-patterns