Show HN: HTTPretty, an easy way to mock http requests in python

by gfalcao • 14 years ago

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leftnode• 14 years ago

I'm just getting start with Python and was using the Requests library this morning. I didn't like that my tests were coupled to both the library and an Internet connection existing.

This just hits the frontpage today and it is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!

gfalcao4• 14 years ago

Thanks great, I'm glad you found it useful

maak• 14 years ago

Very useful. Thank-you.

zer01• 14 years ago

Hot damn, this makes testing easy. Thanks a lot for the module! There's a small typo in your page. "HTTPretty monkey matches" should be "HTTPretty monkey patches".

Great job though!

gfalcao4• 14 years ago

thanks zer01, I just fixed that.

xvolter• 14 years ago

Oh wow, this could turn out to be very useful. Can use this for automated testing for public APIs.

cyphrd• 14 years ago

I think we'll put this to use right away.

emillon• 14 years ago

Fantastic, I tried to roll my own a few times but never got to this point. Thanks !

gfalcao4• 14 years ago

Please feel free to send pull-requests. There are some cool features to be done; supporting wildcards and/or regexes is one of them

denzil_correa• 14 years ago

Great! I always used to have a fixed set of functions written in my personal code base todo these things. Glad yo know you have made a generic library. Good job.

bryanh2• 14 years ago

Wonderful, was considering writing this just the other day. Thank you good sir.

One thing that would be really nice, is a record mode and serialization (to JSON/yaml/etc...) plus a context manager (python's with). How ready are you for pull requests? ;-)

gfalcao4• 14 years ago

bryanh, just saw your pull request, I'm excited to get your contributions :)

bryanh2• 14 years ago

I haven't done one yet! Must be someone else. Regardless, I just wanted to make sure you guys weren't planning on lots of refactoring if I sank a bunch of time into it.

kevin1024• 14 years ago

I'm working on a HTTP testing library based on Ruby's VCR library[1]. I've got it to a pretty basic state where it is somewhat usable. I'm definitely interested in this area. Ruby's VCR uses the Webmock library as a backend (though it can use other pluggable backends) to mock out all the HTTP requests. I had to sort of grow my own Webmock - maybe I can integrate HTTPretty instead so we don't duplicate effort.

[1] http://www.github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy/

gingerlime• 14 years ago

Nice. The thing I liked about VCR is that it not only allows you to mock HTTP responses, but actually records the real response the first time you use it. So you don't even necessarily have to specify what the contents/headers of the response should look like manually... To have an equivalent library for python would be very neat. Hope you guys can join effort somehow to make it happen.

Show HN: HTTPretty, an easy way to mock http requests in python

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