requests-mock/docs/response.rst
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Creating Responses
==================
.. note::
The examples within use this syntax because response creation is a function of the adapter and not the mocker.
All the same arguments can be provided to the mocker if that is how you use `requests_mock` within your project, and use the
.. code:: python
mock.get(url, ...)
form in place of the given:
.. code:: python
adapter.register_uri('GET', url, ...)
Registering Responses
=====================
Responses are registered with the :py:meth:`requests_mock.Adapter.register_uri` function on the adapter.
.. doctest::
>>> adapter.register_uri('GET', 'mock://test.com', text='Success')
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com')
>>> resp.text
'Success'
:py:meth:`~requests_mock.Adapter.register_uri` takes the HTTP method, the URI and then information that is used to build the response. This information includes:
:status_code: The HTTP status response to return. Defaults to 200.
:reason: The reason text that accompanies the Status (e.g. 'OK' in '200 OK')
:headers: A dictionary of headers to be included in the response.
To specify the body of the response there are a number of options that depend on the format that you wish to return.
:json: A python object that will be converted to a JSON string.
:text: A unicode string. This is typically what you will want to use for regular textual content.
:content: A byte string. This should be used for including binary data in responses.
:body: A file like object that contains a `.read()` function.
:raw: A prepopulated :py:class:`urllib3.response.HTTPResponse` to be returned.
These options are named to coincide with the parameters on a :py:class:`requests.Response` object. For example:
.. doctest::
>>> adapter.register_uri('GET', 'mock://test.com/1', json={'a': 'b'}, status_code=200)
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com/1')
>>> resp.json()
{'a': 'b'}
>>> adapter.register_uri('GET', 'mock://test.com/2', text='Not Found', status_code=404)
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com/2')
>>> resp.text
'Not Found'
>>> resp.status_code
404
It only makes sense to provide at most one body element per response.
Dynamic Response
================
A callback can be provided in place of any of the body elements.
Callbacks must be a function in the form of
.. code:: python
def callback(request, context):
and return a value suitable to the body element that was specified.
The elements provided are:
:request: The :py:class:`requests.Request` object that was provided.
:context: An object containing the collected known data about this response.
The available properties on the `context` are:
:headers: The dictionary of headers that are to be returned in the response.
:status_code: The status code that is to be returned in the response.
:reason: The string HTTP status code reason that is to be returned in the response.
These parameters are populated initially from the variables provided to the :py:meth:`~requests_mock.Adapter.register_uri` function and if they are modified on the context object then those changes will be reflected in the response.
.. doctest::
>>> def text_callback(request, context):
... context.status_code = 200
... context.headers['Test1'] = 'value1'
... return 'response'
...
>>> adapter.register_uri('GET',
... 'mock://test.com/3',
... text=text_callback,
... headers={'Test2': 'value2'},
... status_code=400)
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com/3')
>>> resp.status_code, resp.headers, resp.text
(200, {'Test1': 'value1', 'Test2': 'value2'}, 'response')
Response Lists
==============
Multiple responses can be provided to be returned in order by specifying the keyword parameters in a list.
If the list is exhausted then the last response will continue to be returned.
.. doctest::
>>> adapter.register_uri('GET', 'mock://test.com/4', [{'text': 'resp1', 'status_code': 300},
... {'text': 'resp2', 'status_code': 200}])
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com/4')
>>> (resp.status_code, resp.text)
(300, 'resp1')
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com/4')
>>> (resp.status_code, resp.text)
(200, 'resp2')
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com/4')
>>> (resp.status_code, resp.text)
(200, 'resp2')
Callbacks work within response lists in exactly the same way they do normally;
.. doctest::
>>> adapter.register_uri('GET', 'mock://test.com/5', [{'text': text_callback}]),
>>> resp = session.get('mock://test.com/5')
>>> resp.status_code, resp.headers, resp.text
(200, {'Test1': 'value1', 'Test2': 'value2'}, 'response')