python3-wsgi-intercept

Python3 port of the important bits of wsgi-intercept, now working for 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3.

What is it?

wsgi_intercept installs a WSGI application in place of a real URI for testing.

Introduction

Testing a WSGI application normally involves starting a server at a local host and port, then pointing your test code to that address. Instead, this library lets you intercept calls to any specific host/port combination and redirect them into a WSGI application importable by your test program. Thus, you can avoid spawning multiple processes or threads to test your Web app.

wsgi_intercept works by replacing httplib.HTTPConnection with a subclass, wsgi_intercept.WSGI_HTTPConnection. This class then redirects specific server/port combinations into a WSGI application by emulating a socket. If no intercept is registered for the host and port requested, those requests are passed on to the standard handler.

The functions add_wsgi_intercept(host, port, app_create_fn, script_name='') and remove_wsgi_intercept(host,port) specify which URLs should be redirect into what applications. Note especially that app_create_fn is a function object returning a WSGI application; script_name becomes SCRIPT_NAME in the WSGI app's environment, if set.

New Version

For the new version only basic intercept functionality will be provided, with a working implementation for urllib2/urllib.request, httplib/http.client, httplib2 and requests.

To Do

• https support using http.client is not currently working because of issues with recursive calls after the class is overridden.