Pytest-Falcon
Pytest helpers for the Falcon framework.
Install
pip install pytest-falcon
Usage
You must create an app
fixture to expose the Falcon application you want to test:
import falcon
import pytest
application = falcon.API()
application.req_options.auto_parse_form_urlencoded = True
@pytest.fixture
def app():
return application
Fixtures
client
Allows you to test your API:
class Resource:
def on_post(self, req, resp, **kwargs):
resp.body = json.dumps(req.params)
application.add_route('/route', Resource())
def test_post(client):
resp = client.post('/route', {'myparam': 'myvalue'})
assert resp.status == falcon.HTTP_OK
assert resp.json['myparam'] == 'myvalue'
Response properties:
-
body
the body asstr
-
json
the body parsed as json when the response content-type is 'application/json' -
headers
the response headers -
status
the response status, asstr
('200 OK', '405 Method Not Allowed'…) -
status_code
the response status code, asint
(200, 201…)