Get IP Address when testing flask application through nosetests

Question

My application depends on request.remote_addr which is None when i run tests through nosetests which uses app.test_client().post(\'/users/log

Answer 1

You can also pass a header param to the test_request_context if you prefer.

Example:

from flask import Flask, request
import unittest

app = Flask(__name__)
app.debug = True
app.testing = True

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return str(request.remote_addr)

class TestApp(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_headers(self):
        user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"
        ip_address = 127.0.0.1
        headers = {
            'Remote_Addr': ip_address,
            'User_Agent': user_agent
        }

        with self.test_request_context(headers=headers):
            # Do something
            pass

This is useful when you need to perform several unit tests using the request object in other modules.

See the test_request_context documentation.