Hello everyone, I'm working on a Django application which needs to communicate with a 3rd-party REST API. In production the flow would be like this;
1. end-user browser sends a request to my django server 2. my server makes a remote REST call to 3rd party server 3. 3rd party server responds 4. my server sends back response to end-user's browser I'm simulating the above flow during development by using the Httpretty mocking library. Here is how my view looks like; import httpretty THIRD_PARTY_SERVER = http://api.gitlab.com/ def my_view(request): if settings.DEBUG: httpretty.enable() httpretty.register_uri(httpretty.GET, THIRD_PARTY_SERVER, body='{some_mock_response_here}') partner_response = requests.get(THIRD_PARTY_SERVER) if settings.DEBUG: httpretty.disable() httpretty.reset() # Do some stuff here # ... return render(request, 'template.html', context) For the most part, the above works. I can experiment around without hitting the 3rd-party API. But it doesn't feel good. My mocking code is now part of the view function - not what I consider a good design. Problem is, I'm not sure how else this can be done? Does anyone have any better ideas? Note - I'm not doing any testing here. Just need a way to mock 3rd-party REST responses during development when I run "python manage.py runserver" for debugging/experimentation. Ideally, I'd like to move all the mocking code to it's own file and away from my views. This should somehow get activated when I start 'runserver' and work for all my views. Puzzled, Abraham V. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/59821a72-3471-4a9a-affd-3875d28e3a03%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
