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httpsrvvcr
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Library for recording http requests into yaml format that can be further understood by httpsrv_ as a server fixture
Package can be obtained from PyPi
::
pip install httpsrvvcr
Basic usage looks like following::
python -m httpsrvvcr.recorder 8080 http://some-api-url.com/api > tape.yaml
It is possible to skip headers recording with --no-headers flag::
python -m httpsrvvcr.recorder 8080 http://some-api-url.com/api --no-headers > tape.yaml
Once can also exclude some request methods from output completely::
python -m httpsrvvcr.recorder 8080 http://some-api-url.com/api --skip-methods OPTIONS TRACE > tape.yaml
After vcr tape is recorded one can use httpsrvvcr.player module::
import unittest
from httpsrv import Server
from httpsrvvcr.player import Player
server = Server(8080).start()
player = Player(server)
class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
server.reset()
@player.load('path/to/tape.yaml')
def test_should_do_something(self):
pass
.. _httpsrv: https://github.com/nyrkovalex/httpsrv
FAQs
VCR recording proxy-server for usage with httpsrv
We found that httpsrvvcr 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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