Flask test client using GET request instead of POST
Question
I have a route for only POST request and it returns json response if conditions are met. It's something like this:
@app.route('/panel', methods=['POST'])
def post_panel():
# Check for conditions and database operations
return jsonify({"message": "Panel added to database!"
"success": 1})
I am using flask-sslify to force http requests to https.
I am testing this route with Flask test client and unittest. The test function is similar to following:
class TestAPI2_0(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.app = create_app('testing')
self.app_context = self.app.app_context()
self.app_context.push()
db.create_all()
create_fake_data(db)
self.client = self.app.test_client()
def tearDown(self):
....
def test_post_panel_with_good_data(self):
# data
r = self.client.post('/panel',
data=json.dumps(data),
follow_redirects=True)
print(r.data)
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
Output is exactly below:
test_post_panel_with_good_data (tests.test_api_2_0.TestAPI2_0) ... b'<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">\n<title>405 Method Not Allowed</title>\n<h1>Method Not Allowed</h1>\n<p>The method is not allowed for the requested URL.</p>\n'
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FAIL: test_post_panel_with_good_data (tests.test_api_2_0.TestAPI2_0)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/tanjibpa/work/craftr-master/tests/test_api_2_0.py", line 110, in test_post_panel_with_good_data
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
AssertionError: 405 != 200
I am getting an error that Method is not allowed in that route. If I specify GET as a method ( methods=['GET', 'POST'] ) for the route test seems to work. But why test client is making a GET request? Is there any way around rather than specifying a GET request for the route?
Update:
If do it like this:
@app.route('/panel', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def post_panel():
if request.method == 'POST':
# Check for conditions and database operations
return jsonify({"message": "Panel added to database!"
"success": 1})
return jsonify({"message": "GET request"})
I get output like this:
test_post_panel_with_good_data (tests.test_api_2_0.TestAPI2_0) ... b'{\n "message": "GET request"\n}\n'
1 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2017-11-17 17:49:38
I found out what was causing the GET request within flask test client. I am using flask-sslify to force http requests to https. Somehow flask-sslify is enforcing a GET request although test client is specified with other kind of requests (POST, PUT, DELETE...).
So, If I disable sslify during testing flask test client works as it should.
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