PYTHON

pytest monkeypatch

# contents of test_app.py, a simple test for our API retrieval
# import requests for the purposes of monkeypatching
import requests

# our app.py that includes the get_json() function
# this is the previous code block example
import app

def get_json(url):
    """Takes a URL, and returns the JSON."""
    r = requests.get(url)
    return r.json()

# custom class to be the mock return value
# will override the requests.Response returned from requests.get
class MockResponse:

    # mock json() method always returns a specific testing dictionary
    @staticmethod
    def json():
        return {"mock_key": "mock_response"}


def test_get_json(monkeypatch):

    # Any arguments may be passed and mock_get() will always return our
    # mocked object, which only has the .json() method.
    def mock_get(*args, **kwargs):
        return MockResponse()

    # apply the monkeypatch for requests.get to mock_get
    monkeypatch.setattr(requests, "get", mock_get)

    # app.get_json, which contains requests.get, uses the monkeypatch
    result = app.get_json("https://fakeurl")
    assert result["mock_key"] == "mock_response"