Building RESTful Python Web Services

Writing a first round of unit tests

Now, we will write a first round of unit tests. Specifically, we will write unit tests related to the user and message category resources: UserResource, UserListResource, CategoryResource, and CategoryListResource. Create a new tests sub-folder within the api folder. Then, create a new test_views.py file within the new api/tests sub-folder. Add the following lines, that declare many import statements and the first methods for the InitialTests class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_08_01 folder:

from app import create_app from base64 import b64encode from flask import current_app, json, url_for from models import db, Category, Message, User import status from unittest import ...