[TIP] HTTP servers testing

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Nice! A blog post on this is in order too :-)

Grig

--- Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just wrote titus off the list saying how psyched I am with
> wsgi_intercept (after his champion presentation) but, heck, let me
> just share with everyone this little adapter I am currently using on
> top of wsgi_intercept.  It was a shot in the dark but already seems
> to
> at least conceal the details of installing a wsgi fixture, maybe not
> an actual "standard"
> 
> In this example I'm using it in a test that needs a stub response
> sent
> back from a rest service:
> 
> 
> service = WSGIIntercept(install_for=['urllib2'])
> 
> def setup():
>     # set it to staging...
>     service.host = '192.168.x.x'
>     service.port = 8990
>     service.uri = "/theservice"
>     # here, an environ var will be checked
>     # to see if we want to be in "stub" mode.
>     # if so:
>     service.enable = True # now it will intercept
> 
> @service.sends_response("<pretend>this is xml</pretend>")
> def test_transfer()
>     cmd = run_cmd(['--url', service.mkurl()])
>     # etc...
> 
> 
> 
> ... the decorator does all the urllib2 installation and temporarily
> intercepts only while this test is running.
> 
> 
> > Or, as I now explain it, "wsgi_intercept lets Python Web testing
> > packages talk directly to a WSGI app without running a server"...
> >
> > I'll post some examples soon.
> >
> > I think it would be nice to build a "Web fixtures" package (perhaps
> > divorced from twill?) that would set up and run servers in a
> "standard"
> > way.  Then we could try to contribute this back to the individual
> > projects & hope for incorporation.
> >
> > Standardizing fixtures == good, right??
> >
> > --titus
> >
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