Welcome unit testers!

That's not cool:

def test_something():
    api_response = {
        "field1": "value1",
        "field2": "value2",
        ....
        "field37": "value37",
        ....
        "field7632": "value7632"
    }

    myapi.return_value = api_response
    
    result = production_code()
    
    assert result == "value37"

^ This is annoying if your production_code method only uses field37 right?

Of course you could only define the field37 in your test but if a log or something else irrelevant to THIS test uses another field, it has to be there even if it's irrelevant to THIS test.

That's prettier:

api_response = jabstract({
    "field1": "value1",
    "field2": "value2",
    ....
    "field37": "value37",
    ....
    "field7632": "value7632"
})

def test_something():
    myapi.return_value = api_response(field37="value37")
    
    result = production_code()
    
    assert result == "value37"

^ The test is so much more beautiful!

USAGE

Declare your json responses somewhere:

from jabstract import jabstract

api_response = jabstract({
    ... json-ish payload ...
})

Then use it in your tests by defining only relevant fields:

.return_value = api_response(
   key=value
)

It even supports complex payloads!

api_response = jabstract({
    "client": {
        "name": "John doe",
        "email": "johndoe@example.org"
    }
})

.return_value = api_response(
   client=dict(name="Foobar")
)

* note that response["client"]["email"] will keep its default value.

Best practices

Tests using jabstracted payload should define only what is relevant to the test, not less, not more, so that it is obvious to the human eye where a value come from

let's test this code

def name_getter(payload):
    return payload["client"]["name"]

Good example:

api_response = jabstract({
    "client": {
        "name": "John doe",
        "email": "johndoe@example.org"
    }
})

def test_name_getter():
    payload = api_response(client=dict(name="Baboon 2.0"))

    assert name_getter(payload) == "Baboon 2.0"

Reviewer says : Ohhh so it takes the name of the client from the payload... +2

BAD example

api_response = jabstract({
    "client": {
        "name": "John doe",
        "email": "johndoe@example.org"
    }
})

def test_name_getter():
    payload = api_response()
    
    assert name_getter(payload) == "John doe"

Reviewer says : Who the hell is john doe... click on payload... ahhh i see... meh, +1