I'm trying to run tests in my FastAPI application and I'm using a static file that contains a JSON with colors. Once I'm running the command 'pytest {path of my test file}' I'm getting the error - No such file or directory.
At first I was running the below line in the main page of the backend side -
app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static")
The application works fine, but the test doesn't.
The main reason is this function:
with open("static/def_Sys/colors.json") as f:
li = json.load(f)
colors = [x['color'] for x in li]
names = [x['label'] for x in li]
for (x, col) in zip(names, colors):
colors_dict[x.upper()] = col # save systems (key) and color(value) in dictionary and return it
return colors_dict
After that, I tried to do two more actions in order to solve it -
- Deleted the mount line, and added this path in the function instead:
with open("../../../static/def_Sys/colors.json") as f:
but the application could not run (this is the relative path from the current script)
Deleted the mount line, and changed to this line -
with open(os.path.abspath("static\def_Sys\colors.json"),'r') as f:
The application run, but the tests can't find the path to this static file.
Moreover I noticed the tests are not using the same path like the application.
For example:
When we run in pytest:
"C:\Users\user\PycharmProjects\application\static\def_Sys\colors.json"
When we run the application:
"C:\Users\user\PycharmProjects\application\app\static\def_Sys\colors.json"
I'm trying to find a solution that will let me run the tests and my application without changing the code between each run.
