Does Someone Have An Example Of Unit-testing A Soap Api With Python Zeep And Mock?

I'm building a Python app that accesses a 3rd party SOAP API with Python-zeep. I want to implement some unit-tests using mocked responses as I don't always have a live server to ru

Solution 1:

After looking through the Python Zeep source code, I found some examples of tests using the requests-mock library which I was able to work into my solution. Here's a working example in case anyone else is trying to do something similar.

I'm not doing any assertions in this example as I first wanted to prove the concept that I could get zeep to parse a mock response correctly.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-from zeep import Client
from zeep.cache import SqliteCache
from zeep.transports import Transport
from zeep.exceptions import Fault
from zeep.plugins import HistoryPlugin
from requests import Session
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
from urllib3 import disable_warnings
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
from lxml import etree
import requests_mock

disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)

username = 'administrator'
password = 'password'
host = 'cucm-pub'

wsdl = 'file://C:/path/to/axlsqltoolkit/schema/current/AXLAPI.wsdl'
location = 'https://{host}:8443/axl/'.format(host=host)
binding = "{http://www.cisco.com/AXLAPIService/}AXLAPIBinding"

session = Session()
session.verify = False
session.auth = HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)

transport = Transport(cache=SqliteCache(), session=session, timeout=20)
history = HistoryPlugin()
client = Client(wsdl=wsdl, transport=transport, plugins=[history])
service = client.create_service(binding, location)

deftest_listPhone():
    text = """<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <ns:listDevicePoolResponse xmlns:ns="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/API/11.5">
      <return>
        <devicePool uuid="{1B1B9EB6-7803-11D3-BDF0-00108302EAD1}">
          <name>AU_PER_DP</name>
        </devicePool>
        <devicePool uuid="{BEF5605B-1DB0-4157-0176-6C07814C47AE}">
          <name>DE_BLN_DP</name>
        </devicePool>
        <devicePool uuid="{B4C65CAB-86CB-30FB-91BE-6F6E712CACB9}">
          <name>US_NYC_DP</name>
        </devicePool>
      </return>
    </ns:listDevicePoolResponse>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
    """with requests_mock.Mocker() as m:
        m.post(location, text=text)
        resp = service.listDevicePool(searchCriteria={'name': '%'},
                                      returnedTags={'name': '',
                                                    'uuid': ''})

    return resp

test_listPhone()

This then gives me the following result (have manually removed all the attributes with "none" that Zeep includes for brevity):

{
    'return': {
        'devicePool': [
            {
                'name': 'AU_PER_DP',
                'uuid': '{1B1B9EB6-7803-11D3-BDF0-00108302EAD1}'
            },
            {
                'name': 'DE_BLN_DP',
                'uuid': '{BEF5605B-1DB0-4157-0176-6C07814C47AE}'
            },
            {
                'name': 'US_NYC_DP',
                'uuid': '{B4C65CAB-86CB-30FB-91BE-6F6E712CACB9}'
            }
        ]
    },
    'sequence': None
}