pytest-localserver 0.1.2

py.test plugin to test server connections locally.

Sometimes monkeypatching urllib2.urlopen() just does not cut it, for instance if you work with urllib2.Request, define your own openers/handlers or work with httplib. In these cases it may come in handy to have an HTTP server running locally which behaves just like the real thing [1]. Well, look no further!

pytest-localserver is a plugin for the pytest testing framework. It enables you to write tests like the following:

def test_retrieve_some_content(httpserver):
    httpserver.serve_content(open('cached-content.xml').read())
    assert my_content_retrieval(httpserver.url) == 'Found it!'

def test_content_retrieval_fails_graciously(httpserver):
    httpserver.serve_content('File not found!', 404)
    pytest.raises(MyCustomException, my_content_retrieval, httpserver.url)

Additionally, it is also possible to simulate SMTP servers:

def test_sending_some_message(smtpserver):
    mailer = MyMailer(host=smtpserver.addr[0], port=smtpserver.addr[1])
    mailer.send(to='[e-mail]', from_='[e-mail]',
        subject='MyMailer v1.0', body='Check out my mailer!')
    assert len(smtpserver.outbox)==1

It is really that easy!

Available funcargs

httpserver

provides a threaded HTTP server instance running on localhost. It has the following attributes:

• code - HTTP response code (int)

• content - content of next response (str)

• headers - response headers (dict)

Once these attribute are set, all subsequent requests will be answered with these values until they are changed or the server is stopped. A more convenient way to change these is

httpserver.server_content(content=None, code=200, headers=None)

The server address can be found in property

• url

which is the string representation of tuple server_address (host as str, port as int).

httpsserver

is the same as httpserver only with SSL encryption.

smtpserver

provides a threaded instance of smtpd.SMTPServer runnning on localhost. It has the following attributes:

• addr - server address as tuple (host as str, port as int)

• outbox - a mailbox.Maildir instance containing all sent messages. It will live a temporary directory created with tmpdir.

Download and Installation

You can install the plugin by running

pip install pytest-localserver

Alternatively, get the latest stable version from PyPI or the latest bleeding-edge archive from bitbucket.org.

License and Credits

This plugin is released under the MIT license. You can find the full text of the license in the LICENSE file.

Copyright (C) 2011 Sebastian Rahlf <basti at redtoad dot de>

Some parts of this package is based on ideas or code from other people:

• I borrowed some implementation ideas for the httpserver from linkchecker.

• The implementation for the SMTP server is based on the Mailsink recipe by Adam Feuer, Matt Branthwaite and Troy Frever.

• The HTTPS implementation is based on work by Sebastien Martini.

Thanks guys!

Development and future plans

Feel free to clone the repository and add your own changes. Pull requests are always welcome!:

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/basti/pytest-localserver

If you find any bugs, please file a report.

I already have a couple of ideas for future versions:

• support for FTP, SSH (maybe base all on twisted?)

• making the SMTP outbox as convenient to use as django.core.mail.outbox

• add your own here!

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[1]

The idea for this project was born when I needed to check that a piece of software behaved itself when receiving HTTP error codes 404 and 500. Having unsuccessfully tried to mock a server, I stumbled across linkchecker which uses a the same idea to test its internals.