sanic/docs/sanic/testing.md

Testing

Sanic endpoints can be tested locally using the test_client object, which depends on the additional aiohttp library.

The test_client exposes get, post, put, delete, patch, head and options methods for you to run against your application. A simple example (using pytest) is like follows:

# Import the Sanic app, usually created with Sanic(__name__)
from external_server import app

def test_index_returns_200():
    request, response = app.test_client.get('/')
    assert response.status == 200

def test_index_put_not_allowed():
    request, response = app.test_client.put('/')
    assert response.status == 405

Internally, each time you call one of the test_client methods, the Sanic app is run at 127.0.01:42101 and your test request is executed against your application, using aiohttp.

The test_client methods accept the following arguments and keyword arguments:

• uri (default '/') A string representing the URI to test.
• gather_request (default True) A boolean which determines whether the original request will be returned by the function. If set to True, the return value is a tuple of (request, response), if False only the response is returned.
• server_kwargs *(default {}) a dict of additional arguments to pass into app.run before the test request is run.
• debug (default False) A boolean which determines whether to run the server in debug mode.

The function further takes the *request_args and **request_kwargs, which are passed directly to the aiohttp ClientSession request.

For example, to supply data to a GET request, you would do the following:

def test_get_request_includes_data():
    params = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
    request, response = app.test_client.get('/', params=params)
    assert request.args.get('key1') == 'value1'

And to supply data to a JSON POST request:

def test_post_json_request_includes_data():
    data = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
    request, response = app.test_client.post('/', data=json.dumps(data))
    assert request.json.get('key1') == 'value1'

More information about the available arguments to aiohttp can be found in the documentation for ClientSession.