django-rest-assured

Instantly test-cover your Django REST Framework based API.

Django-REST-Assured adds another layer on top of Django REST Framework's APITestCase which allows covering a set of RESTful resource's endpoints with a single class declaration.

This gives both a quick coverage of sanity tests to your API and a more DRY and more friendly platform for writing additional, more comprehensive tests.

As easy as

class CategoryTestCase(ReadWriteRESTAPITestCaseMixin, BaseRESTAPITestCase):

    base_name = 'category'
    factory_class = CategoryFactory
    create_data = {'name': 'comedy'}
    update_data = {'name': 'horror'}

Django-REST-Assured is designed to work with factory_boy for mocking objects to test against. However, you can easily extend the BaseRESTAPITestCase to work directly with Django Models or any other factory.

Main features

• Class-based declarative API for creating tests.
• Covers the stack through: route > view > serializer > model.
• Uses Django REST Framework's conventions to minimize configuration.
• All tests return the response object for more extensive assertions.
• Automatic mocking of authentication if a user factory is provided.

Usage

The basic form of usage is simply to create a class that extends any mixin from rest_assured.testcases, according to the endpoints you wish to cover, and the BaseRESTAPITestCase class.

Then just set the required attributes, and continue extending it from there.

class CategoryAPITestCase(ReadWriteRESTAPITestCaseMixin, BaseRESTAPITestCase):

    base_name = 'category'
    factory_class = Category
    create_data = {'name': 'documentary'}
    update_data = {'name': 'horror'}

If your API requires authentication and/or authorization just add a user factory class. Assuming you use factory_boy:

# in some factories.py module in your accounts app
class User(factory.DjangoModelFactory):

    class Meta:
        model = User
        exclude = ('raw_password',)

    first_name = 'Robert'
    last_name = factory.Sequence(lambda n: 'Paulson the {0}'.format(n))
    email = factory.sequence(lambda n: 'account{0}@example.com'.format(n))
    username = 'mayhem'
    raw_password = '123'
    password = factory.PostGenerationMethodCall('set_password', raw_password)
    is_active = True


# now back in your tests.py module
class CategoryAPITestCase(ReadWriteRESTAPITestCaseMixin, BaseRESTAPITestCase):

    base_name = 'category'
    factory_class = Category
    # see here:
    user_factory = User
    create_data = {'name': 'documentary'}
    update_data = {'name': 'horror'}

Supports

Support is determined by which Django versions are supported, and the Python and Django REST Framework versions that go with them. Tests run against all Django versions supported as of July 28, 2020.

• Django 1.11 with Django REST Framework 3.4 - 3.6 and Python 2.7 and 3.5.
• Django 2.1 and 2.2 with Django REST Framework 3.7-3.10 and Python 3.5-3.8.
• Django 3.0 with Django REST Framework 3.10 and Python 3.7-3.8.

Installation

PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-rest-assured

$ pip install django-rest-assured

Source: https://github.com/ydaniv/django-rest-assured

$ git clone https://github.com/ydaniv/django-rest-assured
$ python setup.py install

Contributing

Issues are tracked in the github repository.

Pull requests are welcome!

Running tests

$ pip install pytest pytest-django
$ py.test

License

Django-REST-Assured is distributed under the BSD license.