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Building RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from  Building RESTful Python Web Services

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462251
Pages 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building RESTful Python Web Services
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 3. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django 4. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Flask 6. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 7. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask 8. Testing and Deploying an API with Flask 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 10. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 11. Exercise Answers

Writing a first round of unit tests


Now, we will write the first round of unit tests. Specifically, we will write unit tests related to the game category class-based views: GameCategoryList and GameCategoryDetail. Open the existing games/test.py file and replace the existing code with the following lines that declare many import statements and the GameCategoryTests class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_04_04 folder, as shown:

from django.test import TestCase 
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse 
from django.utils.http import urlencode 
from rest_framework import status 
from rest_framework.test import APITestCase 
from games.models import GameCategory 
 
 
class GameCategoryTests(APITestCase): 
    def create_game_category(self, name): 
        url = reverse('gamecategory-list') 
        data = {'name': name} 
        response = self.client.post(url, data, format='json') 
        return response 
 
    def test_create_and_retrieve_game_category...
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