如何在 Python 的单元测试场景中模拟 HTTP 请求

Here, we can use a mock object that we will give to core.HttpRequests and that it will use, unknowingly, as if it were the real library. After that, we can test that the interaction was conducted as expected.

import core

class HttpRequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_get_content_should_use_get_properly(self):
        # Setup

        url = "http://example.com"

        # We create an object that is not a real HttpClient but that will have
        # the same interface (see the `spec` argument). This mock object will
        # also have some nice methods and attributes to help us test how it was used.
        mock_http_client = Mock(spec=somehttplib.HttpClient) 

        # Exercise

        http_requests = core.HttpRequests(mock_http_client)
        content = http_requests.get_content(url)

        # Here, the `http_client` attribute of `http_requests` is the mock object we
        # have passed it, so the method that is called is `mock.get()`, and the call
        # stops in the mock framework, without a real HTTP request being sent.

        # Verify

        # We expect our get_content method to have called our http library.
        # Let's check!
        mock_http_client.get.assert_called_with(url)

        # We can find out what our mock object has returned when get() was
        # called on it
        expected_content = mock_http_client.get.return_value
        # Since our get_content returns the same result without modification,
        # we should have received it
        self.assertEqual(content, expected_content)

我们现在已经测试了我们的 get_content 方法与我们的 HTTP 库正确交互.我们已经定义了 HttpRequests 对象的边界并对其进行了测试，这就是我们应该在单元测试级别进行的工作.该请求现在已掌握在该库的手中，我们的单元测试套件当然不会负责测试该库是否按预期工作.

import requests

class HttpRequests(object):

    # No more DI in __init__

    def get_content(self, url):
        # We simply delegate the HTTP work to the `requests` module
        return requests.get(url)

import core

class HttpRequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        # We create a mock to replace the `requests` module
        self.mock_requests = Mock()

        # We keep a reference to the current, real, module
        self.old_requests = core.requests

        # We replace the module with our mock
        core.requests = self.mock_requests

    def tearDown(self):
        # It is very important that each unit test be isolated, so we need
        # to be good citizen and clean up after ourselves. This means that
        # we need to put back the correct `requests` module where it was
        core.requests = self.old_requests

    def test_get_content_should_use_get_properly(self):
        # Setup

        url = "http://example.com"

        # Exercise
        http_client = core.HttpRequests()
        content = http_client.get_content(url)

        # Verify

        # We expect our get_content method to have called our http library.
        # Let's check!
        self.mock_requests.get.assert_called_with(url)

        # We can find out what our mock object has returned when get() was
        # called on it
        expected_content = self.mock_requests.get.return_value
        # Since our get_content returns the same result without modification,
        # we should have received
        self.assertEqual(content, expected_content)

import core

class HttpRequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    @patch("core.requests")
    def test_get_content_should_use_get_properly(self, mock_requests):
        # Notice the extra param in the test. This is the instance of `Mock` that the
        # decorator has substituted for us and it is populated automatically.

        ...

        # The param is now the object we need to make our assertions against
        expected_content = mock_requests.get.return_value