Flexport CI Integration

Overview

Set up CI/CD for Flexport logistics integrations: run unit tests with mocked shipment and tracking responses on every PR, execute live API contract validation against the Flexport sandbox on merge to main. Flexport's API covers shipments, booking, customs documentation, and real-time tracking, so CI pipelines verify data transforms for shipment lifecycle events and ensure API contract compatibility across versions.

Prerequisites

Protected CI environments with sandbox secrets available only to trusted jobs.
Fictional shipment fixtures, approved data mappings, and a named deployment/rollback owner.

Instructions

Run unit and schema tests with mocked data on pull requests and do not expose secrets to forks.
Limit authenticated sandbox checks to protected merges, with minimum scopes and redacted output.
Validate destination allowlists, idempotency, and failure paths before an approved canary deployment.

Output

Publish a CI receipt with commit SHA, fixture version, checks run, aggregate result, sandbox approval, and redacted failure reference. Exclude logistics payloads, documents, and credentials.

Examples

A pull request validates a fictional port-to-status mapping without credentials. A protected post-merge job processes one sandbox event and fails the release if an unexpected field or destination appears, retaining only the opaque event ID.

GitHub Actions Workflow

# .github/workflows/flexport-ci.yml
name: Flexport CI
on:
  pull_request:
    paths: ['src/flexport/**', 'tests/**']
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  unit-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with: { node-version: '20' }
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test -- --reporter=verbose

  integration-tests:
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    needs: unit-tests
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    environment: staging
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with: { node-version: '20' }
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run test:integration
        env:
          FLEXPORT_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.FLEXPORT_API_KEY }}

Mock-Based Unit Tests

// tests/flexport-service.test.ts
import { describe, it, expect, vi } from 'vitest';
import { getShipmentStatus } from '../src/flexport-service';

vi.mock('../src/flexport-client', () => ({
  FlexportClient: vi.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
    getShipment: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({
      id: 'shp_abc123',
      status: 'in_transit',
      origin: { port: 'CNSHA', country: 'CN' },
      destination: { port: 'USLAX', country: 'US' },
      containers: [{ id: 'MSKU1234567', type: '40ft_hc' }],
      estimated_arrival: '2026-04-15T00:00:00Z',
    }),
    listShipments: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ data: [], total_count: 0 }),
  })),
}));

describe('Flexport Service', () => {
  it('returns shipment tracking status', async () => {
    const status = await getShipmentStatus('shp_abc123');
    expect(status.status).toBe('in_transit');
    expect(status.origin.port).toBe('CNSHA');
  });
});

Integration Tests

// tests/integration/flexport.integration.test.ts
import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';

const hasKey = !!process.env.FLEXPORT_API_KEY;

describe.skipIf(!hasKey)('Flexport Live API', () => {
  it('lists shipments from sandbox', async () => {
    const res = await fetch('https://api.flexport.com/shipments?per=1', {
      headers: {
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.FLEXPORT_API_KEY}`,
        'Flexport-Version': '2',
      },
    });
    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
    const body = await res.json();
    expect(body.data).toHaveProperty('total_count');
  });
});

Error Handling

CI Issue	Cause	Fix
`401 Unauthorized`	Invalid API key or wrong environment	Verify key at portal.flexport.com
`Flexport-Version` header missing	API version not set	Add `Flexport-Version: 2` to all requests
Shipment not found (404)	Test shipment ID expired	Use `listShipments` to get a valid ID dynamically
Rate limit (429)	Too many parallel test requests	Add request throttling between test cases
Customs data empty	Sandbox doesn't populate customs	Mock customs fields in unit tests, skip in integration

Resources

Next Steps

For deployment strategies, see flexport-deploy-integration.