python mock Requests and the response

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

----- Original Message -----
> I am a beginner to using mock in python and trying to use
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock.
> 
> Please tell me the basic calls to get me working in below scenario. I
> am using python's Requests module
> (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/) .
> 
> In my views.py, I have a function that makes variety of
> requests.get() calls with different response each time
> 
>     def myview(request):
>       res1 = requests.get('aurl')
>       res2 = request.get('burl')
>       res3 = request.get('curl')
> 
> In my test class I want to do something like this but cannot figure
> out exact method calls
> 
> Step 1:
> 
>     //Mock the requests module
>     //when mockedRequests.get('aurl') is called then return 'a
>     response'
>     //when mockedRequests.get('burl') is called then return 'b
>     response'
>     //when mockedRequests.get('curl') is called then return 'C
>     response'
> 
> Step 2:
> 
> Call my view
> 
> Step 3:
> 
> verify response contains 'a response', 'b response' , 'c response'
> 
> Please help me to complete Step 1.
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> 

Hi,

Why are you passing the requests (with typo ?) module to the function ? anyway, the code could look like this:

!! untested code, I don't have the requests module installed !!

import requests
import mock

def myView():
	res1 = requests.get('aurl')
	res2 = requests.get('burl')
	res3 = requests.get('curl')

@mock.patch('requests.get', mock.Mock(side_effect = lambda k:{'aurl': 'a response', 'burl' : 'b response'}.get(k, 'unhandled request %s'%k)))
def testMyView(mockedGet):
	# you can further customize the mock object here
	mockedGet.whatever()
	myView()

testMyView()


side_effect is the mock way of returning multiple values.

Hope it helps,

JM


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