Api By Example for Python

This repository includes tools to be able to use the ABE format from within Python code. In particular we aim to support python tests.

Support for unittest.TestCase

You can use ABE in your unittests by mixing in AbeTestMixin, adding a class-level attribute samples_root that points to a root folder containing your sample files.

You can then compare how your code behaves re: an ABE sample with a simple call:

self.assert_matches_sample(
    path_to_sample, label, actual_url, actual_response
)

Here is a full example:

import os

from abe.unittest import AbeTestMixin
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from rest_framework_jwt.test import APIJWTTestCase as TestCase

from ..factories.accounts import UserFactory, TEST_PASSWORD


class TestMyAccountView(AbeTestMixin, TestCase):
    url = reverse('myaccount')
    samples_root = os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, 'docs', 'api')

    def setUp(self):
        super(TestMyAccountView, self).setUp()
        self.user = UserFactory()

    def test_get_my_account_not_logged_in(self):
        """
        If I'm not logged in, I can't access any account data
        """
        response = self.client.get(self.url)
        self.assert_matches_sample(
            'accounts/profile.json', 'unauthenticated', self.url, response
        )

    def test_get_my_account_logged_in(self):
        """
        If I'm logged in, I can access any account data
        """
        self.client.login(username=self.user.username, password=TEST_PASSWORD)

        response = self.client.get(self.url)

        self.assert_matches_sample(
            'accounts/profile.json', 'OK', self.url, response
        )

This is the file under docs/api/accounts/profile.json:

{
    "description": "Retrieve profile of logged in user",
    "url": "/accounts/me",
    "method": "GET",
    "examples": {
        "OK": {
            "request": {
                "url": "/accounts/me"
            },
            "response": {
                "status": 200,
                "body": {
                    "id": 1,
                    "username": "user-0",
                    "first_name": "",
                    "last_name": "",
                    "email": "[email protected]"
                }
            }
        },
        "unauthenticated": {
            "description": "I am not logged in",
            "request": {
                "url": "/accounts/me"
            },
            "response": {
                "status": 403,
                "body": {
                    "detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided."
                }
            }
        }
    }
}