WebTest

This wraps any WSGI application and makes it easy to send test requests to that application, without starting up an HTTP server.

This provides convenient full-stack testing of applications written with any WSGI-compatible framework.

Full docs can be found at https://webtest.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

News

2.0.18 (2015-02-05)

• Avoid deprecation warning with py3.4

2.0.17 (2014-12-20)

• Properly check for default cookiejar arguments [Julian Berman]
• Avoid raising encoding errors from debugapp (needed to use with WSGIProxy2) [Laurence Rowe]

2.0.16 (2014-09-19)

• Fixed #110. Forced values for Radio inputs are no longer ignored by value property on get. [bayprogrammer]
• Added method TestApp.set_parser_features to change the parser_features used by BeautifulSoup. [tomasmoreyra]
• Added app.set_cookie [luhn]

2.0.15 (2014-04-17)

• Fixed #73. Python < 2.6.5 does not support unicode as keyword arguments names. [Stepan Kolesnik]
• Fixed #84 Application cookies for localhost are no longer ignored [gawel]
• Fixed #89 remove WSGIWarning: You are not supposed to send a body in a DELETE request because we now have a good reason for that. See http://bit.ly/1tb3yxW [gawel]
• Fixed #92 You can now override TestApp.JSONEncoder to use a custom encoder [gawel]
• Fixed #93 Support basic authentication [gawel]
• Fixed #103 Broken \"Edit me on GitHub\" links in documentation [gawel]
• Fixed #106 Make wrapping the app in the lint middleware optional [dmlayton]
• Fixed #107 Explicit error message when WSGIProxy2 is not installer [gawel]
• Fixed #108 cgi.parse_qsl is pending deprecation [gawel]

2.0.14 (2014-01-23)

• Allow [.select()]{.title-ref} on <select>s and <select multiple>s. [Markus Bertheau]

2.0.13 (2014-01-23)

• Allow selecting <select> options by text [Markus Bertheau]

2.0.12 (2014-01-17)

• Ignore the [value]{.title-ref} attribute of file inputs [Markus Bertheau]
• Allow selecting the form submit button by its value [Markus Bertheau]

2.0.11 (2013-12-29)

• Depend on [unittest2]{.title-ref} only for Python versions lower than 2.7 [iElectric]
• Add an optional parameter to [TestApp]{.title-ref}, allowing the user to specify the parser used by BeautifulSoup [lyndsysimon]

2.0.10 (2013-11-14)

• Make StopableWSGIServer thread daemonic [lrowe]

2.0.9 (2013-09-18)

• Make sure Upload.content_type is not ignored https://github.com/Pylons/webtest/pull/88 [Marius Gedminas]

2.0.8 (2013-09-17)

• Allow checking/unchecking a set of same-named checkboxes by assigning a list of values. [carljm]
• fix \"AttributeError: \'InputWrapper\' object has no attribute \'seek\'\" [iElectric]
• Added [xhr=True]{.title-ref} parameter to [TestApp.get]{.title-ref}, [TestApp.post]{.title-ref}, [TestApp.head]{.title-ref}, [TestApp.delete]{.title-ref} [kharandziuk]
• Remove old (and broken?) casperjs/selenium backward compat imports. Fix https://github.com/gawel/webtest-selenium/issues/9 [gawel]
• Allow optionally specifying the MIME type of an uploaded form file. Fixes #86 [Marius Gedminas]

2.0.7 (2013-08-07)

• Detect JSON if mimetype ends with +json, such as application/vnd.webtest+json [homm]
• Fixed #72. Use WSGIServer new api even if there waitress has backward compat. [gawel]
• Fixed #50. Corrected default value for the delete params argument. [noonat]
• Be sure to decode the content if it is gziped before returning it [Alexis M