I have to test out a certain view that gets certain information from request.args
.
I can't mock this since a lot of stuff in the view uses the request object.
The only alternative I can think of is to manually set request.args
.
I can do that with the test_request_context()
, e.g:
with self.app.test_request_context() as req:
req.request.args = {'code': 'mocked access token'}
MyView()
Now the request inside this view will have the arguments that I've set. However I need to call my view, not just initialize it, so I use this:
with self.app.test_client() as c:
resp = c.get('/myview')
But I don't know how to manipulate the request arguments in this manner.
I have tried this:
with self.app.test_client() as c:
with self.app.test_request_context() as req:
req.request.args = {'code': 'mocked access token'}
resp = c.get('/myview')
but this does not set request.args
.
Pass the query_string
argument to c.get
, which can either be a dict
, a MultiDict
, or an already encoded string.
with app.test_client() as c:
r = c.get('/', query_string={'name': 'davidism'})
The test client request methods pass their arguments to Werkzeug's EnvironBuilder
, which is where this is documented.