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A mocking library for requests
for Python 2.7 and 3.4+.
pip install httmock
Or, if you are a Gentoo user:
emerge dev-python/httmock
You can use it to mock third-party APIs and test libraries that use requests
internally, conditionally using mocked replies with the urlmatch
decorator:
from httmock import urlmatch, HTTMock
import requests
@urlmatch(netloc=r'(.*\.)?google\.com$')
def google_mock(url, request):
return 'Feeling lucky, punk?'
with HTTMock(google_mock):
r = requests.get('http://google.com/')
print r.content # 'Feeling lucky, punk?'
The all_requests
decorator doesn't conditionally block real requests. If you return a dictionary, it will map to the requests.Response
object returned:
from httmock import all_requests, HTTMock
import requests
@all_requests
def response_content(url, request):
return {'status_code': 200,
'content': 'Oh hai'}
with HTTMock(response_content):
r = requests.get('https://foo_bar')
print r.status_code
print r.content
If you pass in Set-Cookie
headers, requests.Response.cookies
will contain the values. You can also use response
method directly instead of returning a dict:
from httmock import all_requests, response, HTTMock
import requests
@all_requests
def response_content(url, request):
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json',
'Set-Cookie': 'foo=bar;'}
content = {'message': 'API rate limit exceeded'}
return response(403, content, headers, None, 5, request)
with HTTMock(response_content):
r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/whatever')
print r.json().get('message')
print r.cookies['foo']
FAQs
A mocking library for requests.
We found that httmock demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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