webmock 1.1.0

Mock web server for testing web clients

webmock
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This tool provides an in-process WSGI server on an ephemeral port.
It is intended for use in unit tests, when the system under test makes outgoing HTTP connections that cannot easily be mocked.

Usage
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First, create a WSGI application that represents the fake web server you want to create.
This is simpler than it seems; for example::

def simple_app(environ, start_response):
status = '200 OK'
headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain')]
start_response(status, headers)
return ['Hello, world!\n']

Next, activate the test server.
There are several ways to do this, but all of them produce a port number.

As a context manager::

from mockweb import mock_server
def test_web_request():
with mock_server(simple_app) as port:
my_client.get_greeting('http://127.0.0.1:{}'.format(port))

As a decorator::

from mockweb import mock_server
@mock_server(simple_app)
def test_web_request(port):
my_client.get_greeting('http://127.0.0.1:{}'.format(port))

Or manually started and stopped::

from mockweb import mock_server
@mock_server
def test_web_request():
server = mock_server(simple_app)
# ...
server.start()
my_client.get_greeting('http://127.0.0.1:{}'.format(port))
server.stop()

In the latter case, be careful to stop the server.

Mock App
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The ``webmock`` package includes a simple WSGI app which behaves like the Python ``Mock``: it accepts and records any request, and allows tests to make assertions after the operation is complete.

Its usage is simple:

from mockweb import mock_server, MockApp

app = MockApp()
with mock_server(app):
# ..
app.assert_called_with('GET /foo/bar')

The assertion methods available are:

* ``assert_called_with(call)`` -- assert that the most recent request matches ``call``
* ``assert_called_once_with(call)`` -- assert that only one request was made and that it matches ``call``
* ``assert_any_call(call)`` -- assert that the any request matches ``call``
* ``assert_has_call([call, call, ..], any_order=False)`` -- assert that the given calls all occurred.
If ``any_order`` is false, the calls must be sequential.

A call can be described with a string containing the method and the path.

The mock app's behavior can be adjusted in some minor ways.
For anything more complex, build a custom WSGI app.

* ``MockApp(response='403 Forbidden')`` -- customize the HTTP response (default is "200 OK")
* ``MockApp(body='hello world\n')`` -- customize the response body (default is empty)
* ``MockApp(headers=[('X-Auth', 'abc123')])`` -- customize the response headers