Writing tests for REST API endpoints
All the tools we need to test our FastAPI application are now ready. All these tests boil down to performing an HTTP request and checking the response to see whether it corresponds to what we expect.
Let’s start simply with a test for our hello_world path operation function. You can see it in the following code:
chapter09_app_test.py
@pytest.mark.asyncioasync def test_hello_world(test_client: httpx.AsyncClient):
response = await test_client.get("/")
assert response.status_code == status.HTTP_200_OK
json = response.json()
assert json == {"hello": "world"}
First of all, notice that the test function is defined as async. As we mentioned previously, to make it work with...