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Mocking Python Requests with Responses

andrewsomething 12y ago
I'm evaluating some different solutions to this problem and would love to hear from anyone who has experience with both this and HTTPretty.
- droope 12y ago
  I personally haven't used httpretty, because of the way it had been implemented, I thought it would be impossible for it not to cause bugs in my tests. (Monkey patching socket seems way more complex than patching urllib, or requests) I am using responses in the CMS Scanner I am building https://github.com/droope/droopescan https://github.com/droope/droopescan https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/master/tests/base_http_tests.py https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/master/tests/base_... I did have to create some helper functions in order to make responses easier to apply to a broad range of tests, those are here: This one allows you to mock several requests in a more tidy way: https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e87440d6bb549f254c6dae8654/tests/__init__.py#L100-L106 https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e874... This one is useful for adding responses.activate to all methods in a class: https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e87440d6bb549f254c6dae8654/common/testutils.py#L5-L19 https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e874... Overall, it works perfectly (and I've been developing with it for at least half a year), and supports python 3.
- florentx 12y ago
  I've evaluated some solutions recently. I like Responses, because its API is simple and easy to use. However we are using directly the Urllib3 library in our code, so I needed to adapt it to mock Urllib3 instead of Requests. I've published the package: https://github.com/florentx/urllib3-mock https://github.com/florentx/urllib3-mock It can be used either with Urllib3 or Requests.
rw_grim 12y ago
I'm still wondering how HTTMock didn't do the job for them... Unfortunately, comments are closed on that blog, so I guess I'll never know..

I'm evaluating some different solutions to this problem and would love to hear from anyone who has experience with both this and HTTPretty.

droope 12y ago
I personally haven't used httpretty, because of the way it had been implemented, I thought it would be impossible for it not to cause bugs in my tests. (Monkey patching socket seems way more complex than patching urllib, or requests) I am using responses in the CMS Scanner I am building https://github.com/droope/droopescan https://github.com/droope/droopescan https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/master/tests/base_http_tests.py https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/master/tests/base_... I did have to create some helper functions in order to make responses easier to apply to a broad range of tests, those are here: This one allows you to mock several requests in a more tidy way: https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e87440d6bb549f254c6dae8654/tests/__init__.py#L100-L106 https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e874... This one is useful for adding responses.activate to all methods in a class: https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e87440d6bb549f254c6dae8654/common/testutils.py#L5-L19 https://github.com/droope/droopescan/blob/2cf3f9fd076124e874... Overall, it works perfectly (and I've been developing with it for at least half a year), and supports python 3.
florentx 12y ago
I've evaluated some solutions recently. I like Responses, because its API is simple and easy to use. However we are using directly the Urllib3 library in our code, so I needed to adapt it to mock Urllib3 instead of Requests. I've published the package: https://github.com/florentx/urllib3-mock https://github.com/florentx/urllib3-mock It can be used either with Urllib3 or Requests.

rw_grim 12y ago

I'm still wondering how HTTMock didn't do the job for them... Unfortunately, comments are closed on that blog, so I guess I'll never know..