If I have some strings that represent JSON response bodies I want to use to test a RESTStream, do you have a suggestion on how to use an instance of the tap in my test to parse the response body to inspect the resulting record messages?

it depends on what you're after. If it's to test live data, I'd go with

dbt tests

, another approach is https://gitlab.com/meltano/sdk/-/merge_requests/197 There's approaches in the SDK for loading static data if that's what you're after https://gitlab.com/meltano/sdk/-/blob/main/tests/core/test_streams.py#L199 Luckily when I need to do this I can normally just test the individual function I"m using https://github.com/AutoIDM/tap-zohosprints/blob/main/tap_zohosprints/tests/test_core.py#L42 and feel good about it

Thanks. I have a fixture very much like the static data loading approach you point out. Unfortunately it does not include the parent context identifiers

https://github.com/AutoIDM/tap-googleads/pull/19 , gets a bit closer to what you're after I think @adam_roderick 😄

@visch thanks, that helps me understand better the hooks available to process records