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Python Microservices Development
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Python Microservices Development

by Tarek Ziadé
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using WebTest

WebTest (http://webtest.readthedocs.io) has been around for a long time. It was written by Ian Bicking back in the days of the Paste project, and is based on the WebOb (http://docs.webob.org) project, which provides a Request and Response class similar (but not compatible) to Flask's.

WebTest wraps call to a WSGI application like FlaskTest does, and lets you interact with it. WebTest is somewhat similar to FlaskTest, with a few extra helpers when dealing with JSON, and a neat feature to call non-WSGI applications.

To use it with Flask, you can install the flask-webtest package (https://flask-webtest.readthedocs.io/), and you will get a similar integration level as Flask's native tool:

    import unittest  from flask_basic import ...
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