This is part of my unit test in Flask-RESTful.
self.app = application.app.test_client()
rv = self.app.get('api/v1.0/{0}'.format(ios_sync_timestamp))
eq_(rv.status_code,200)
Within the command line I could use curl to send the username:password to the service:
curl -d username:password http://localhost:5000/api/v1.0/1234567
How do I achieve the same within my unit test's get() ?
Since my get/put/post require authentication otherwise the test would fail.
From RFC 1945, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
11.1 Basic Authentication Scheme
...
To receive authorization, the client sends the user-ID and password, separated by a single colon (":") character, within a base64 [5] encoded string in the credentials.string.
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If the user agent wishes to send the user-ID "Aladdin" and password open sesame", it would use the following header field:
Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
So if you really use http basic authentication you can solution like below, although your curl usage suggests some other authentication scheme.
from base64 import b64encode
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic ' + b64encode("{0}:{1}".format(username, password)).decode('utf-8')
}
rv = self.app.get('api/v1.0/{0}'.format(ios_sync_timestamp), headers=headers)
An alternative solution - All credit goes to Doug Black
def request(self, method, url, auth=None, **kwargs):
headers = kwargs.get('headers', {})
if auth:
headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode(auth[0] + ':' + auth[1])
kwargs['headers'] = headers
return self.app.open(url, method=method, **kwargs)
and then use this method in your tests:
resp = self.request('GET', 'api/v1.0/{0}'.format(ios_sync_timestamp), auth=(username, password))
For Python 3, try the following example:
from base64 import b64encode
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % b64encode(b"username:password").decode("ascii")
}
self.app.get("foo/", headers=headers)
If you'd like to use dynamic variables for username and password, then try something like:
'Basic %s' % b64encode(bytes(username + ':' + password, "utf-8")).decode("ascii")
