Source code for flask.testing

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
    flask.testing
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Implements test support helpers.  This module is lazily imported
    and usually not used in production environments.

    :copyright: (c) 2015 by Armin Ronacher.
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
"""

from contextlib import contextmanager
from werkzeug.test import Client, EnvironBuilder
from flask import _request_ctx_stack

try:
    from werkzeug.urls import url_parse
except ImportError:
    from urlparse import urlsplit as url_parse


def make_test_environ_builder(app, path='/', base_url=None, *args, **kwargs):
    """Creates a new test builder with some application defaults thrown in."""
    http_host = app.config.get('SERVER_NAME')
    app_root = app.config.get('APPLICATION_ROOT')
    if base_url is None:
        url = url_parse(path)
        base_url = 'http://%s/' % (url.netloc or http_host or 'localhost')
        if app_root:
            base_url += app_root.lstrip('/')
        if url.netloc:
            path = url.path
            if url.query:
                path += '?' + url.query
    return EnvironBuilder(path, base_url, *args, **kwargs)


[docs]class FlaskClient(Client): """Works like a regular Werkzeug test client but has some knowledge about how Flask works to defer the cleanup of the request context stack to the end of a ``with`` body when used in a ``with`` statement. For general information about how to use this class refer to :class:`werkzeug.test.Client`. Basic usage is outlined in the :ref:`testing` chapter. """ preserve_context = False @contextmanager
[docs] def session_transaction(self, *args, **kwargs): """When used in combination with a ``with`` statement this opens a session transaction. This can be used to modify the session that the test client uses. Once the ``with`` block is left the session is stored back. :: with client.session_transaction() as session: session['value'] = 42 Internally this is implemented by going through a temporary test request context and since session handling could depend on request variables this function accepts the same arguments as :meth:`~flask.Flask.test_request_context` which are directly passed through. """ if self.cookie_jar is None: raise RuntimeError('Session transactions only make sense ' 'with cookies enabled.') app = self.application environ_overrides = kwargs.setdefault('environ_overrides', {}) self.cookie_jar.inject_wsgi(environ_overrides) outer_reqctx = _request_ctx_stack.top with app.test_request_context(*args, **kwargs) as c: sess = app.open_session(c.request) if sess is None: raise RuntimeError('Session backend did not open a session. ' 'Check the configuration') # Since we have to open a new request context for the session # handling we want to make sure that we hide out own context # from the caller. By pushing the original request context # (or None) on top of this and popping it we get exactly that # behavior. It's important to not use the push and pop # methods of the actual request context object since that would # mean that cleanup handlers are called _request_ctx_stack.push(outer_reqctx) try: yield sess finally: _request_ctx_stack.pop() resp = app.response_class() if not app.session_interface.is_null_session(sess): app.save_session(sess, resp) headers = resp.get_wsgi_headers(c.request.environ) self.cookie_jar.extract_wsgi(c.request.environ, headers)
def open(self, *args, **kwargs): kwargs.setdefault('environ_overrides', {}) \ ['flask._preserve_context'] = self.preserve_context as_tuple = kwargs.pop('as_tuple', False) buffered = kwargs.pop('buffered', False) follow_redirects = kwargs.pop('follow_redirects', False) builder = make_test_environ_builder(self.application, *args, **kwargs) return Client.open(self, builder, as_tuple=as_tuple, buffered=buffered, follow_redirects=follow_redirects) def __enter__(self): if self.preserve_context: raise RuntimeError('Cannot nest client invocations') self.preserve_context = True return self def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, tb): self.preserve_context = False # on exit we want to clean up earlier. Normally the request context # stays preserved until the next request in the same thread comes # in. See RequestGlobals.push() for the general behavior. top = _request_ctx_stack.top if top is not None and top.preserved: top.pop()