pyhttptest 0.1a0

A command-line tool for HTTP tests over RESTful APIs

Pissed about writing test scripts against your RESTFul APIs anytime? Describe an HTTP Requests test cases in a simplest and widely used format JSON within a file. Run one command and gain a summary report.

Installation

Recommended installation method is to use pip:

$ pip install pyhttptest

Python version 3+ is required.

Usage

$ pyhttptest execute FILE

See also pyhttptest --help.

Examples

Create a .json file and define a test case like an example:

FILE: GET_USERS.json

{
  "name": "TEST: List all users",
  "verb": "GET",
  "endpoint": "users",
  "host": "https://github.com",
  "headers": {
    "Accept-Language": "en-US"
  },
  "query_string": {
    "limit": 5
  }
}

Execute a test case:

$ pyhttptest execute FILE_PATH/GET_USERS.json

Dependencies

Under the hood, HTTPie uses these two amazing libraries:

• ijson — Iterative JSON parser with a standard Python iterator interface

• jsonschema — An implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python

• Requests — Python HTTP library for humans

• tabulate — Pretty-print tabular data

• click — Composable command line interface toolkit

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

Change log

See CHANGELOG.

Licence

BSD-3-Clause: LICENSE.

Authors

Iliyan Slavov