Unittesting cherrypy webapp

Question

I recently had to rewrite our rest api, and made the switch from Flask to Cherrypy (mostly due to Python 3 compatibility). But now I\'m stuck trying to write my unit tests, Flas

Answer 1

It seems that there is an alternate way to perform unittest. I just found and check the following recipe which works fine with cherrypy 3.5.

http://docs.cherrypy.org/en/latest/advanced.html#testing-your-application

    import cherrypy

    from cherrypy.test import helper

    class SimpleCPTest(helper.CPWebCase):
        def setup_server():
            class Root(object):
                @cherrypy.expose
                def echo(self, message):
                    return message

            cherrypy.tree.mount(Root())
        setup_server = staticmethod(setup_server)

        def test_message_should_be_returned_as_is(self):
            self.getPage("/echo?message=Hello%20world")
            self.assertStatus('200 OK')
            self.assertHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8')
            self.assertBody('Hello world')

        def test_non_utf8_message_will_fail(self):
            """
            CherryPy defaults to decode the query-string
            using UTF-8, trying to send a query-string with
            a different encoding will raise a 404 since
            it considers it's a different URL.
            """
            self.getPage("/echo?message=A+bient%F4t",
                         headers=[
                             ('Accept-Charset', 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8'),
                             ('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1')
                         ]
            )
            self.assertStatus('404 Not Found')