JSON support for the Flask test client #1408
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LGTM, please add a changelog entry and proper documentation. |
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@untitaker Please take a second look. I've updated the changelog, but couldn't find a good place for documentation. There's no API reference for |
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Maybe it would be good to extend the json support to Werkzeug's client/response as well. Then the documentation could go there along with what already exists. |
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@davidism Yeah, that's my next patch, but since this is my first contribution to Flask I decided to submit this piece by piece. |
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@adambyrtek I think it only makes sense to do this on one of them -- Flask's test client is a subclass of Werkzeug's. |
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@untitaker Sorry, I think I misread the comment. Just to clarify, I don't intend to patch Werkzeug (since I believe JSON support is too high-level for that), but I'd like to extend the Flask response object in a separate pull request to allow: However, I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve the documentation for this. |
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Ahh, I see. |
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Ok, currently this is missing documentation -- AFAICT there's no way to discover this functionality from the online docs. |
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Otherwise, 👍 |
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@untitaker Sure, I'll try to incorporate this in the testing section. |
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Moved to #1416. |
This change adds support for JSON requests to the Flask test client, which makes testing JSON APIs much more convenient, and makes the arguments consistent with
request.dataandrequest.json.Before:
response = client.post('/url', data=json.dumps(json_data), content_type='application/json')After:
response = client.post('/url', json=json_data})If this gets merged then I have another change to support
response.json, which would make it easier to make assertions on JSON responses.