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HTTP server integration for testing

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gocept.httpserverlayer

This package provides an HTTP server for testing your application with normal HTTP clients (e.g. a real browser). This is done using test layers, which are a feature of zope.testrunner.

gocept.httpserverlayer uses plone.testing for the test layer implementation, and exposes the following resources (accessible in your test case as self.layer[RESOURCE_NAME]):

http_host:

The hostname of the HTTP server (Default: localhost)

http_port:

The port of the HTTP server (Default: 0, which means chosen automatically by the operating system)

http_address:

hostname:port, convenient to use in URLs (e.g. 'http://user:password@%s/path' % self.layer['http_address'])

This package is compatible with Python versions 2.4 - 2.7.

WSGI

This test layer takes a WSGI callable and runs it in a temporary HTTP server:

import gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi
from mypackage import App
import unittest

HTTP_LAYER = gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi.Layer()
HTTP_LAYER.wsgi_app = App()

class WSGIExample(unittest.TestCase):

    layer = HTTP_LAYER

    def test_something(self):
        r = urllib.urlopen('http://%s/' % self.layer['http_address'])
        self.assertIn('Hello world', r.read())

You can also have a base layer provide the WSGI callable (in the wsgi_app resource):

import gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi
from mypackage import App
import plone.testing

class WSGILayer(plone.testing.Layer):

    def setUp(self):
        self['wsgi_app'] = App()

WSGI_LAYER = WSGILayer()

HTTP_LAYER = gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi.Layer(
    name='HTTPLayer', bases=(WSGI_LAYER,))

Framework integration

gocept.httpserverlayer also provides integration with several web frameworks. Different frameworks require different dependencies; this is handled via setuptools extras of gocept.httpserverlayer (e.g. for Grok integration you need to require gocept.httpserverlayer[zopeappwsgi]).

Most flavours require the usage of a specialised TestCase in addition to the test layer.

Zope3 / ZTK (zope.app.testing)

Requires gocept.httpserverlayer[zopeapptesting].

This test layer builds on the usual ZCMLLayer that is used for typical ZTK functional tests:

import gocept.httpserverlayer.zopeapptesting
import zope.app.testing.functional

ZCML_LAYER = zope.app.testing.functional.ZCMLLayer(
    'ftesting.zcml', __name__, __name__, allow_teardown=True)
HTTP_LAYER = gocept.httpserverlayer.zopeapptesting.Layer(
    name='HTTPLayer', bases=(ZCML_LAYER,))

class ZTKExample(gocept.httpserverlayer.zopeapptesting.TestCase):

    layer = HTTP_LAYER

    def test(self):
        r = urllib.urlopen('http://%s/' % self.layer['http_address'])
        self.assertIn('Hello world', r.read())

Zope3 / ZTK / Grok (zope.app.wsgi)

Requires gocept.httpserverlayer[zopeappwsgi]

If your ZTK application uses zope.app.wsgi.testlayer (which is the recommended test setup for Grok, for example), you can use gocept.httpserverlayer.zopeappwsgi.Layer to create a WSGI app that integrates ZODB isolation, and gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi.Layer to provide the actual HTTP server. No special TestCase is required, unittest.TestCase is enough.

The zopeappwsgi.Layer expects to find the current ZODB in the plone.testing resource zodbDB (which is used by plone.testing.zodb.EMPTY_ZODB), or you can inherit and override get_current_zodb. Here’s an example setup for Grok (which uses zope.app.appsetup.testlayer.ZODBLayer):

import gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi
import gocept.httpserverlayer.zopeappwsgi
import unittest
import zope.app.appsetup.testlayer

ZODB_LAYER = zope.app.appsetup.testlayer.ZODBLayer(
    gocept.httpserverlayer.zopeappwsgi, 'testing.zcml')

class WSGILayer(gocept.httpserverlayer.zopeappwsgi.Layer):

    defaultBases = (ZODB_LAYER,)

    def get_current_zodb(self):
        return ZODB_LAYER.db

WSGI_LAYER = WSGILayer()

HTTP_LAYER = gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi.Layer(
    name='HTTPLayer', bases=(WSGI_LAYER,))

class GrokExample(unittest.TestCase):

    layer = HTTP_LAYER

    def test(self):
        r = urllib.urlopen('http://%s/' % self.layer['http_address'])
        self.assertIn('Hello world', r.read())

Zope 2 (ZopeTestCase)

Requires gocept.httpserverlayer[zope2testcase]

This test layer builds on Testing.ZopeTestCase.layer.ZopeLiteLayer (or nothing at all, when using Zope2<2.12):

import Products.Five.zcml
import Testing.ZopeTestCase
import gocept.httpserverlayer.zope2
import plone.testing

class ZCMLLayer(plone.testing.Layer):

    def setUp(cls):
        Testing.ZopeTestCase.installProduct('Five')
        Products.Five.zcml.load_config(
            'configure.zcml', package=Products.Five)
        Products.Five.zcml.load_config(
            'configure.zcml', package=mypackage)

ZCML_LAYER = ZCMLLayer()

HTTP_LAYER = gocept.httpserverlayer.zope2.Layer(
    name='HTTPLayer',
    bases=(Testing.ZopeTestCase.layer.ZopeLiteLayer, ZCML_LAYER,))

class Zope2Example(gocept.httpserverlayer.zope2.TestCase):

    layer = HTTP_LAYER

    def test(self):
        r = urllib.urlopen('http://%s/' % self.layer['http_address'])
        self.assertIn('Hello world', r.read())

Zope 2 via WSGI

If your Zope 2 setup supports it, you can use the WSGI integration instead of a specialised Zope 2 integration to run your tests.

You might see the following exception when running tests:

File ".../repoze.retry-1.0-py2.7.egg/repoze/retry/__init__.py", line 55, in __call__
  cl = int(cl)
 ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

To fix this issue you can use an additional middleware around your WSGI application: gocept.httpserverlayer.wsgi.FixupMiddleware.

Plone (ZopeTestCase)

Requires gocept.httpserverlayer[plonetestcase].

This test layer builds on Products.PloneTestCase.laye.PloneSiteLayer:

from Products.PloneTestCase.layer import PloneSiteLayer
import Products.PloneTestCase.PloneTestCase
import gocept.httpserverlayer.plone

Products.PloneTestCase.PloneTestCase.setupPloneSite(id='plone')

HTTP_LAYER = gocept.httpserverlayer.zope2.Layer(
    name='HTTPLayer', bases=(PloneSiteLayer,))

class PloneTests(gocept.httpserverlayer.plone.TestCase):

    layer = HTTP_LAYER

    def test(self):
        r = urllib.urlopen('http://%s/' % self.layer['http_address'])
        self.assertIn('Hello world', r.read())

Zope 2 / Plone (plone.testing.z2)

Requires gocept.httpserverlayer[plonetestingz2].

gocept.httpserverlayer provides a plone.testing.Layer at gocept.httpserverlayer.plonetesting.HTTP_SERVER that you can mix and match with your base layers. No special TestCase is required, unittest.TestCase is enough.

For a plain Zope2 application this might look like this (uses plone.testing[z2]):

import gocept.httpserverlayer.plonetesting
import plone.testing
import plone.testing.z2

class Layer(plone.testing.Layer):

    defaultBases = (plone.testing.z2.STARTUP,)

    def setUp(self):
        zope.configuration.xmlconfig.file(
            'testing.zcml', package=mypackage,
            context=self['configurationContext'])

Z2_LAYER = Layer()

HTTP_LAYER = plone.testing.Layer(
    name='HTTPLayer',
    bases=(Z2_LAYER, gocept.httpserverlayer.plonetesting.HTTP_SERVER))

And for a Plone application like this (uses plone.app.testing):

import gocept.httpserverlayer.plonetesting
import plone.app.testing.layers
import plone.testing

HTTP_LAYER = plone.testing.Layer(
    name='HTTPLayer',
    bases=(plone.app.testing.layers.PLONE_FIXTURE,
           gocept.httpserverlayer.plonetesting.HTTP_SERVER))

Developing gocept.httpserverlayer

Author:

gocept <mail@gocept.com>

Online documentation:

http://packages.python.org/gocept.httpserverlayer/

PyPI page:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gocept.httpserverlayer/

Issue tracker:

https://projects.gocept.com/projects/gocept-httpserverlayer/

Source code:

https://bitbucket.org/gocept/gocept.httpserverlayer/

Current change log:

https://bitbucket.org/gocept/gocept.httpserverlayer/raw/tip/CHANGES.txt

buildout configuration

gocept.httpserverlayer integrates with quite a lot of different web frameworks, so there are quite a lot of buildout configurations for this package, so we are able to run our tests against all the different software versions we integrate with. These configurations reside in the flavours/ directory, and you can employ one by editing buildout.cfg and extending it:

[buildout]
extends = flavours/MY_FLAVOUR.cfg

Change log for gocept.httpserverlayer

1.0 (2012-12-19)

initial release (extracted from gocept.selenium-1.0)

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