In this article, I will show you how you can test a Python web service that was built using Connexion (a wrapper library around Flask). We will go over how you can mock functions and how you can test your endpoints. There are two related articles I have written in the past listed below. In the first one we go over how to create a web service using Connexions, the same web service we will in this article. ...
RESTful APIs are very popular at the moment and Python is a great language to develop web APIs with. In this article we will go over a documentation first approach to building APIs. We will be using Flask, Swagger Code-Gen (OpenAPI) and Connexions. I will go over an API/documentation first approach to building a RESTful API in Python. Which will try to minimise the differences between what’s defined in the API specification and the actual API logic itself. ...
Pytest is a popular Python library used for testing. It is my preferred testing library because it requires less boilerplate code than the alternatives such as (the builtin) unittest, the built in testing library. In this article, I will show you how you can use pytest-flask and pytest-mock to test your Flask app. These two libraries are plugins for Pytest which build upon some of the features that Pytest provides us. ...
Terminology Docker Image: Is a file used to execute code in a Docker container, built from a set of instructions. Docker Container: Is a Docker image that is being executed or run. Docker 🐳 is a relatively new and exciting technology, Docker is a containerisation tool. The main benefits of using Docker is that you can use the same environment for development, testing and production. Since Docker environments are consistent this means if the application works in the testing environment it will also work in production. ...