diff --git a/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/ApiGatewayRequestIdentity.java b/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/ApiGatewayRequestIdentity.java
index 89b1ea2a..520ebda0 100644
--- a/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/ApiGatewayRequestIdentity.java
+++ b/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/ApiGatewayRequestIdentity.java
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 
 import com.amazonaws.serverless.proxy.RequestReader;
-
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
 
 
@@ -28,6 +27,42 @@
 @JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
 public class ApiGatewayRequestIdentity {
 
+    /**
+     * Creates an ApiGatewayRequestIdentity instance with default values based on a typical API Gateway request.
+     * 
+     * @return A pre-configured ApiGatewayRequestIdentity instance
+     */
+    public static ApiGatewayRequestIdentity getApiGatewayRequestIdentity() {
+        ApiGatewayRequestIdentity identity = new ApiGatewayRequestIdentity();
+        // Set default values based on example API Gateway request
+        identity.setApiKey(null);
+        identity.setApiKeyId(null);
+        identity.setUserArn(null);
+        identity.setCognitoAuthenticationType(null);
+        identity.setCaller(null);
+        identity.setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36");
+        identity.setUser(null);
+        identity.setCognitoIdentityPoolId(null);
+        identity.setCognitoIdentityId(null);
+        identity.setCognitoAuthenticationProvider(null);
+        identity.setSourceIp("127.0.0.1");
+        identity.setAccountId(null);
+        identity.setAccessKey(null);
+        return identity;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an ApiGatewayRequestIdentity instance with the specified source IP.
+     * 
+     * @param sourceIp the source IP to set
+     * @return A pre-configured ApiGatewayRequestIdentity instance
+     */
+    public static ApiGatewayRequestIdentity getApiGatewayRequestIdentity(String sourceIp) {
+        ApiGatewayRequestIdentity identity = getApiGatewayRequestIdentity();
+        identity.setSourceIp(sourceIp);
+        return identity;
+    }
+
     //-------------------------------------------------------------
     // Variables - Private
     //-------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/AwsProxyRequestContext.java b/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/AwsProxyRequestContext.java
index e7cb1bf6..f965930a 100644
--- a/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/AwsProxyRequestContext.java
+++ b/aws-serverless-java-container-core/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/serverless/proxy/model/AwsProxyRequestContext.java
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 
 import com.amazonaws.serverless.proxy.RequestReader;
-
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
 
 
@@ -29,6 +28,48 @@
 @JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
 public class AwsProxyRequestContext {
 
+    /**
+     * Creates an AwsProxyRequestContext instance with default values based on a typical API Gateway request.
+     * 
+     * @return A pre-configured AwsProxyRequestContext instance
+     */
+    public static AwsProxyRequestContext getAwsProxyRequestContext() {
+        AwsProxyRequestContext context = new AwsProxyRequestContext();
+        
+        // Set default values based on typical API Gateway request
+        context.setAccountId("123456789012");
+        context.setApiId("id");
+        context.setResourceId("$default");
+        context.setResourcePath("/my/path");
+        context.setHttpMethod("POST");
+        context.setRequestId("id");
+        context.setExtendedRequestId("");
+        context.setStage("$default");
+        context.setPath("/my/path");
+        context.setProtocol("HTTP/1.1");
+        context.setRequestTimeEpoch(System.currentTimeMillis()); // Current time as reasonable default
+        
+        // Create and set identity with defaults (already includes sourceIp and userAgent)
+        context.setIdentity(ApiGatewayRequestIdentity.getApiGatewayRequestIdentity());
+        
+        // Initialize authorizer
+        context.setAuthorizer(new ApiGatewayAuthorizerContext());
+        
+        return context;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an AwsProxyRequestContext instance with the specified HTTP method.
+     * 
+     * @param httpMethod the HTTP method to set
+     * @return A pre-configured AwsProxyRequestContext instance
+     */
+    public static AwsProxyRequestContext getAwsProxyRequestContext(String httpMethod) {
+        AwsProxyRequestContext context = getAwsProxyRequestContext();
+        context.setHttpMethod(httpMethod);
+        return context;
+    }
+
     //-------------------------------------------------------------
     // Variables - Private
     //-------------------------------------------------------------