Simulating responses from third party server in Django

Question

I have a function that makes a call :

GET www.thirdpartydomain.com/objectlist/

and fetches a JSON list in the following way: [ { id: 1, name: 'abc', }, { id: 2, name: 'def', } ]

and then the function loops through the objects in the array fetched and makes further calls

GET www.thirdpartydomain.com/object/<id> --- where id is in the fetched json array

For testing, I dont want to call the thirdpartydomain API and instead fake it with known responses for LISt and DETAILS API

How can I do this in Django?

I'd say it mostly depends on how you are sending the request to the third party website. If you are using the module [`requests`](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/) you can use the module [`responses`](https://github.com/getsentry/responses) to "fake" the HTTP request and get the results you want for testing. — El Bert, Mar 13 '15 at 10:58
+1 for `responses` ... there's also https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpretty they are both good but different, have used them both — Anentropic, Mar 13 '15 at 11:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '15 at 20:13

Have you looked at Betamax? To quote from the documentation:

Betamax intercepts every request you make and attempts to find a matching request that has already been intercepted and recorded

You'd decorate your tests appropriate, the the first time you run them it would mock them from what it recorded previously.

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