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Mahdi Yusuf
Mahdi Yusuf

Reputation: 21038

Mocking an Http connection in python

I am trying to mock an http connection to test some of my python code. I was wondering how this is achieved. I need the mock class to return data store in a json object when requested. I am trying to figure out how to place the data and create a mock http request in order to obtain it and modify it through posts need be.

Any pointers and small examples are appreciated.

Please and thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2010

Answers (3)

Amazia Gur
Amazia Gur

Reputation: 1722

You might want to check out mimicker — HTTP stubbing server designed for scenarios just like this.

It has a clean and expressive sdk

from mimicker import mimicker

mock_server = mimicker(8080).routes(
    get("/example").body({"message": "Hello"}).status(200)
)

with mock_server:
    # Run your REST client test code here.

Another big plus - it's built with Python's standard library so no need extra bloat or frameworks like: flask, fast-api and such.

Upvotes: 0

Eli Bendersky
Eli Bendersky

Reputation: 273834

Use the BaseHTTPServer module (http.server is its name if you're on Python 3) to create a simple HTTP mock server and bend it to your will. It allows you to easily customize its request handlers to achieve anything you need with relatively small amounts of code. The module's documentation is pretty good - start there.

Upvotes: 3

Shekhar
Shekhar

Reputation: 7245

I had the the same requirement few days back. I used flask webserver. Extremely easy to use and very well documented. It has jsonify function which will help you returning json.

To be honest every framework will provide you jsonify equivalent, just that I found flask to easy to understand and setup for my testing need.

Upvotes: 1

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