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Extensions for zope.testbrowser

Project description

Extensions for the Zope 3 testbrowser

This package is intended to provide extended versions of the Zope 3 testbrowser. Especially those extensions that introduce dependencies to more external products, like lxml.

Extension: lxml-support

All HTML pages are parsed and provided as an element-tree.

Extended testbrowser

This package provides some extensions to zope.testbrowser. These are not included in the core because they have extra dependencies, such as lxml.

Requirements
  • lxml

etree support

The extended test browser allows parsing of the result of a request into an etree using lxml (if the content type is text/html or text/xml).

This is useful to perform more detailed analysis of web pages using e.g. XPath and related XML technologies.

Example:

>>> from z3c.etestbrowser.testing import ExtendedTestBrowser
>>> browser = ExtendedTestBrowser()
>>> browser.open("http://localhost/")
>>> print(browser.contents)
<!DOCTYPE ...>
...
</html>
>>> browser.etree
<Element html at ...>
>>> browser.etree.xpath('//body')
[<Element body at ...>]
Strict XML

It is possible to force the test browser to use the xml parser:

>>> browser.xml_strict
False
>>> browser.xml_strict = True
>>> browser.open("http://localhost/")
>>> browser.etree
<Element {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}html at ...>
>>> browser.etree.xpath(
...     '//html:body', namespaces={'html': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'})
[<Element {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}body at ...>]
LXML unicode support

A couple of variations of libxml2 might interpret UTF-8 encoded strings incorrectly. We have a workaround for that. Let’s have a look at a view that contains a German umlaut:

>>> browser.xml_strict = False
>>> browser.open('http://localhost/lxml.html')
>>> browser.etree.xpath("//span")[0].text == u'K\xfcgelblitz.'
True
Invalid XML/HTML responses

Responses that contain a body with invalid XML/HTML will cause an error when accessing the etree or normalized_contents attribute, but will load fine for general TestBrowser use:

>>> browser.open("http://localhost/empty.html")
>>> browser.contents
''
>>> browser.etree
Traceback (most recent call last):
ValueError: ...
>>> browser.normalized_contents
Traceback (most recent call last):
ValueError: ...
HTML/XML normalization

The extended test browser allows normalized output of HTML and XML which makes testing examples with HTML or XML a bit easier when unimportant details like whitespace are changing:

>>> browser.open('http://localhost/funny.html')
>>> print(browser.contents)
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Foo</title>
</head>
    <body>
          <h1>
      Title
    </h1>
        </body>
            </html>
<BLANKLINE>

versus

>>> print(browser.normalized_contents)
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Foo</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>
      Title
    </h1>
  </body>
</html>

Using testbrowser on the internet

The z3c.etestbrowser.browser module exposes an ExtendedTestBrowser class that simulates a web browser similar to Mozilla Firefox or IE.

>>> from z3c.etestbrowser.browser import ExtendedTestBrowser
>>> browser = ExtendedTestBrowser()

It can send arbitrary headers; this is helpful for setting the language value, so that your tests format values the way you expect in your tests, if you rely on zope.i18n locale-based formatting or a similar approach.

>>> browser.addHeader('Accept-Language', 'en-US')

The browser can open web pages:

>>> browser.open('https://www.w3.org')
>>> print(browser.contents)
<!DOCTYPE html ...
...The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community...

CHANGES

4.0 (2023-02-21)

  • Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.

  • Add support for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11.

  • Drop deprecated support for python setup.py test.

  • Drop deprecated z3c.etestbrowser.wsgi.

3.0.1 (2019-03-05)

  • Fix deprecation declaration in .wsgi.

3.0 (2019-03-04)

Backwards incompatible changes

  • Add support for zope.testbrowser >= 5.0 which speaks WSGI this requires tests to be updated to WSGI.

  • Deprecate z3c.etestbrowser.wsgi which used to contain the WSGI variant as it is now the default.

  • Drop the zope.app.testing extra introduced in version 2.0.0 as it dropped its special zope.testbrowser support.

  • Drop .browser.ExtendedTestBrowser.pretty_print as its requirements are deprecated or even removed from Python’s StdLib.

  • Adapt the code to newer lxml versions which no longer raise an exception if the string to be parsed by lxml.etree is empty. We now raise a ValueError in this case.

Features

  • Add support for Python 3.6 up to 3.7.

2.0.1 (2015-11-09)

  • Fix over_the_wire.txt

2.0.0 (2011-10-13)

  • No longer depending on zope.app.wsgi but on zope.testbrowser >= 4.0 for the WSGI flavor of testbrowser.

  • Added a zope.app.testing extra. You should use this extra if you want to use the browser in z3c.etestbrowser.testing. (The base testbrowser used there has been moved from zope.testbrowser to zope.app.testing in version 4.0.)

  • Renamed z3c.etestbrowser.wsgi.ExtendedTestBrowser to Browser for equality with zope.testbrowser but kept ExtendedTestBrowser for backwards compatibility.

1.5.0 (2010-08-22)

  • Added z3c.etestbrowser.wsgi.ExtendedTestBrowser, a variant that can be used when the test layer was set up using using zope.app.wsgi.testlayer.

1.4.0 (2010-07-08)

  • Took zope.securitypolicy refactoring and zope.testing.doctest deprecation into account.

  • Added z3c.etestbrowser.browser.ExtendedTestBrowser, a variant that speaks HTTP instead of directly talking to the publisher talks to the publisher, see Using testbrowser on the internet.

1.3.1 (2010-01-18)

  • Added doctest to long_description to show up on pypi.

1.3.0 (2009-07-23)

  • Updgraded pacakge to lxml 2.2.

  • Fixed bug with normalized_contents which would break the open function of test browser if content wasn’t parsable as HTML/XML.

1.2.0 (2008-05-29)

  • Added normalized_contents attribute that reindents and normalizes the etree structure of a document and allows easier to read HTML/XML examples in doctests.

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