How to apply integration tests (rather than unit tests) to a Flask RESTful API

Question

[As per https://stackoverflow.com/a/46369945/1021819, the title should refer to integration tests rather than unit tests]

Suppose I\'d like to test the foll

Answer 1

With Python3, I got the error TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not bytes. It is required to decode:

# in TestFlaskApi.test_hello_world
self.assertEqual(json.loads(response.get_data().decode()), {'hello': 'world'})

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