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Building RESTful Python Web Services

By : Gaston C. Hillar
Book Image

Building RESTful Python Web Services

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Python is the language of choice for millions of developers worldwide, due to its gentle learning curve as well as its vast applications in day-to-day programming. It serves the purpose of building great web services in the RESTful architecture. This book will show you the best tools you can use to build your own web services. Learn how to develop RESTful APIs using the popular Python frameworks and all the necessary stacks with Python, Django, Flask, and Tornado, combined with related libraries and tools. We will dive deep into each of these frameworks to build various web services, and will provide use cases and best practices on when to use a particular framework to get the best results. We will show you everything required to successfully develop RESTful APIs with the four frameworks such as request handling, URL mapping, serialization, validation, authentication, authorization, versioning, ORMs, databases, custom code for models and views, and asynchronous callbacks. At the end of each framework, we will add authentication and security to the RESTful APIs and prepare tests for it. By the end of the book, you will have a deep understanding of the stacks needed to build RESTful web services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building RESTful Python Web Services
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Writing a first round of unit tests


Now, we will write a first round of unit tests. Specifically, we will write unit tests related to the LED resources. Create a new tests subfolder within the virtual environment's root folder. Then, create a new test_hexacopter.py file within the new tests subfolder. Add the following lines that declare many import statements and the TextHexacopter class. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_10_02 folder:

import unittest 
import status 
import json 
from tornado import ioloop, escape 
from tornado.testing import AsyncHTTPTestCase, gen_test, gen 
from async_api import Application 
 
 
class TestHexacopter(AsyncHTTPTestCase): 
    def get_app(self): 
        self.app = Application(debug=False) 
        return self.app 
 
    def test_set_and_get_led_brightness_level(self): 
        """ 
        Ensure we can set and get the brightness levels for both LEDs 
        """ 
        patch_args_led_1 = {'brightness_level': 128} ...