Simple webserver or web testing framework

Need to testcase a complex webapp which does some interacting with a remote 3rd party cgi based webservices. Iam planing to implement some of the 3rd party services in a dummy webserver, so that i have full controll about the testcases. Looking for a simple python http webserver or framework to emulate the 3rd party interface.

From stackoverflow

• I would look into Django.

• You might be happiest with a WSGI service, since it's most like CGI.

  Look at werkzeug.

• Take a look the standard module wsgiref:

  http://www.python.org/doc/2.6/library/wsgiref.html

  At the end of that page is a small example. Something like this could already be sufficient for your needs.

  nosklo : +1: I agree that included wsgiref server is probably enough for his needs.

• Use cherrypy, take a look at Hello World:

  import cherrypy
  
  class HelloWorld(object):
      def index(self):
          return "Hello World!"
      index.exposed = True
  
  cherrypy.quickstart(HelloWorld())
  

  Run this code and you have a very fast Hello World server ready on localhost port 8080!! Pretty easy huh?

• It might be simpler sense to mock (or stub, or whatever the term is) urllib, or whatever module you are using to communicate with the remote web-service?

  Even simply overriding urllib.urlopen might be enough:

  import urllib
  from StringIO import StringIO
  
  class mock_response(StringIO):
      def info(self):
          raise NotImplementedError("mocked urllib response has no info method")
      def getinfo():
          raise NotImplementedError("mocked urllib response has no getinfo method")
  
  def urlopen(url):
      if url == "http://example.com/api/something":
          resp = mock_response("<xml></xml>")
          return resp
      else:
          urllib.urlopen(url)
  
  
  is_unittest = True
  
  if is_unittest:
      urllib.urlopen = urlopen
  
  print urllib.urlopen("http://example.com/api/something").read()
  

  I used something very similar here, to emulate a simple API, before I got an API key.