[TIP] py.test + mock - how to test attribute "call"?

[Sylvain Viart]

Hi,

I writing a command line wrapper for managing powerdns via its
REST interface.

I'm now refactoring my proof of concept to a full python script. I'm
using requests library to communicate the Json code build by my python
class. I'm adding unittest to ensure no regression, from first bash + jq
+ python + json + jinja2 + yaml version.

I'm having trouble to understand how to use correctly mock object to
test correctness of requests' call and also returned object.

I'm using py.test + pytest-mock

I would like to test here that r.text is returned if I call:

r = p.exec_pdns_api('GET', rest_url, text=True)
https://github.com/opensource-expert/powerdns-shell-wrapper/blob/dev-override-cmd-line/pdns_zone.py#L79


how to I make an assertion that the r.text has been called/returned?

r is <MagicMock name='get().text' id='139703066450704'>

r.text.assert_called() is not the good assertion
test code here:
https://github.com/opensource-expert/powerdns-shell-wrapper/blob/dev-override-cmd-line/test/test_pdns_zone.py#L40

I may using a wrong way of testing it… Any hint would be appreciated.

Regards,
Sylvain.

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