HTTPretty

Version 0.1

What

HTTPretty is a HTTP client mock library for Python 100% inspired on ruby's FakeWeb

Motivation

When building systems that access external resources such as RESTful webservices, XMLRPC or even simple HTTP requests, we stumble in the problem:

"I'm gonna need to mock all those requests"

It brings a lot of hassle, you will need to use a generic mocking tool, mess with scope and so on.

The idea behind HTTPretty (how it works)

HTTPretty monkey matches Python's socket core module, reimplementing the HTTP protocol, by mocking requests and responses.

This is a nice thing, if you consider that all python http modules are supposed to get mocked.

Usage

expecting a simple response body

from httpretty import HTTPretty
HTTPretty.register_uri(HTTPretty.GET, "http://globo.com/",
                       body="The biggest portal in Brazil")

fd = urllib2.urlopen('http://globo.com')
got = fd.read()
fd.close()

print got

:: output ::

The biggest portal in Brazil

rotating responses

same URL, same request method, the first request return the first HTTPretty.Response, all the subsequent ones return the last (status 202)

HTTPretty.register_uri(HTTPretty.GET, "http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/httpretty",
                       responses=[
                           HTTPretty.Response(body="first response", status=201),
                           HTTPretty.Response(body='second and last response', status=202),
                        ])

request1 = urllib2.urlopen('http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/httpretty')
body1 = request1.read()
request1.close()

assert that(request1.code).equals(201)
assert that(body1).equals('first response')

request2 = urllib2.urlopen('http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/httpretty')
body2 = request2.read()
request2.close()
assert that(request2.code).equals(202)
assert that(body2).equals('second and last response')

request3 = urllib2.urlopen('http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/httpretty')
body3 = request3.read()
request3.close()
assert that(request3.code).equals(202)
assert that(body3).equals('second and last response')

Documentation

expect for a response, and check the request got by the "server" to make sure it was fine.

from httpretty import HTTPretty
from httplib2 import Http

HTTPretty.register_uri(HTTPretty.PATCH, "http://api.github.com/",
                       body='{"repositories": ["HTTPretty", "lettuce"]}')

client = Http()
headers, body = client.request('http://api.github.com', 'PATCH',
                               body='{"username": "gabrielfalcao"}',
                               headers={
                                   'content-type': 'text/json',
                               })
assert body == '{"repositories": ["HTTPretty", "lettuce"]}'
assert HTTPretty.last_request.method == 'PATCH'
assert HTTPretty.last_request.headers['content-type'] == 'text/json'

Dependencies

you will need ONLY if you decide to contribute to HTTPretty which means you're gonna need run our test suite

• nose
• sure
• httplib2
• bolacha
• tornado
• multiprocessing (only needed if you're running python < 2.6)

Here is a oneliner

I know you want it :)

pip install -r requirements.txt

Contributing

1. fork and clone the project
2. install the dependencies above
3. run the tests with make:

   make unit functional

4. hack at will
5. commit, push etc
6. send a pull request

License

<HTTPretty - HTTP client mock for Python>
Copyright (C) <2011>  Gabriel Falcão <gabriel@nacaolivre.org>

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