I've struggled and spent a lot of hours writing manual Python scripts to be able to test a product involving many microservices. All of them following the REST conventions. Overwhelmed with too many scripts, each one test different endpoints, how they respond also what they respond, I've decided to create a Python package to easily do this, without needing to create a manual Python script, import libraries to send an HTTP Request, copy and paste code from other scripts to test fast the new endpoints, etc. Happy to announce ! pyhttptest My first contribution to the Python community, released in . PyPI - A command-line tool for HTTP tests over Web server, elegantly solves the problem in simple three steps. pyhttptest 1. Install the package pip install pyhttptest 2. Describe your HTTP Requests test cases against your service in a simplest and widely used format JSON within a file. 1. To send an HTTP GET Request: Create a JSON file, for example, data/GET_USERS.json { : , : , : , : , : { : }
} "name" "TEST: Github Page" "verb" "GET" "endpoint" "/" "host" "https://github.com" "headers" "Accept-Language" "en-US" 2. To send an HTTP POST Request: Create a JSON file, for example, data/POST_BIN.json { : , : , : , : , : { : }
} "name" "TEST: Create an HTML bin" "verb" "POST" "endpoint" "post" "host" "https://httpbin.org" "payload" "content" "Hello, world!" The properties, which you can pass to a file are: .json name - The name of your test case e.g "Get all users". verb - An HTTP Method e.g . "GET", "POST" AT THE MOMENT ONLY "GET" and "POST" ARE SUPPORTED. endpoint - The resource you want to invoke on your server e.g "/users". host - Your server identification, could be e.g etc. " http://localhost:8008 ," " https://github.com " headers - An HTTP Headers. All HTTP header are supported. fields query_string - Pass query string parameters in the URL after question mark e.g ? http://example.com/test name=pyhttptest payload - The data. NOTE: There are required and optional properties for .json Required: name verb endpoint host Optional: headers payload query_string 3. Run command and gain report pyhttptest execute data/GET_USERS.json That's it! Currently, the package is in the Beta version, it may contain bugs, not user-friendly messages, etc. I want to gather feedback from anyone of you, it doesn't matter if it is positive or negative. It'll help me to prepare the package to be better for the official release version. Waiting for your feedback and list of features for implementation or features to remove to make your work easier! Thanks for your attention and feedback! I've appreciated it!

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