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An extension of WebTest with useful extras, including requests-style authentication.

Install

$ pip install -U webtest-plus

Usage

import unittest
from myapp import app
from webtest_plus import TestApp

class TestMyApp(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.app = TestApp(app)

    def test_protected_endpoint(self):
        response = self.app.get("/secret/", expect_errors=True)
        assert response.status_code == 401
        # Requests-style authentication
        response = self.app.get("/secret/", auth=("admin", "passw0rd"))
        assert response.status_code == 200

    def test_more_secrets(self):
        # Another way to authenticate
        self.app.authenticate(username="admin", password="passw0rd")
        assert self.app.get("/secret/").status_code == 200
        self.app.deauthenticate()
        assert self.app.get("/secret/", expect_errors=True).status_code == 401

    def test_posting_json(self):
        # Testing json requests and responses
        response = self.app.post_json("/postsecret/", {"secret": "myprecious"},
                                        auth=("admin", "passw0rd"))
        assert response.request.content_type == "application/json"

    def test_clicking(self):
        response = self.app.get("/")
        response = response.click("Protected link", auth=("admin", "passw0rd"))
        assert response.status_code == 200

    def test_token_auth(self):
        response = self.app.get('/secret-requires-token/', expect_errors=True)
        assert response.status_code == 401

        # Authenticate with JWT
        response = self.app.get('/secret-requires-token',
            auth='yourlongtokenhere', auth_type='jwt')
        assert response.status_code == 200

Features

  • Basic HTTP authentication

  • JSON Web Token authentication

  • Auto-follow redirects

  • Framework-agnostic

Requirements

  • Python >= 2.6 or >= 3.3

License

MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.

Changelog

1.0.0 (2017-05-17)

  • Fix handling of utf-encoded values when using auth (#3). Thanks @biern for the catch and patch.

  • Drop support for Python 2.6.

  • Test against Python 3.6.

0.3.3 (2015-03-17)

  • Implement TestApp.head.

0.3.2 (2014-06-04)

  • Bug fix that caused an UnboundLocalError.

0.3.1 (2014-05-31)

  • Fix string encoding bug on Python 2.

0.3.0 (2014-05-31)

  • Add support for JSON web token authentication.

0.2.1 (2013-11-24)

  • Add authentication to TestResponse.click and TestResponse.clickbutton.

0.2.0 (2013-10-15)

  • Add support for JSON methods (e.g. app.post_json, etc.)

0.1.0 (2013-10-06)

  • First release.

  • HTTP Basic Authentication working.

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