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Testing in Graphene
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Automated testing is an extremely useful bug-killing tool for the modern developer. You can use a collection of tests – a test suite – to solve, or avoid, a number of problems:
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- When you’re writing new code, you can use tests to validate your code works as expected.
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- When you’re refactoring or modifying old code, you can use tests to ensure your changes haven’t affected your application’s behavior unexpectedly.
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Testing a GraphQL application is a complex task, because a GraphQL application is made of several layers of logic – schema definition, schema validation, permissions and field resolution.
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With Graphene test-execution framework and assorted utilities, you can simulate GraphQL requests, execute mutations, inspect your application’s output and generally verify your code is doing what it should be doing.
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Testing tools
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-------------
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Graphene provides a small set of tools that come in handy when writing tests.
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Test Client
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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The test client is a Python class that acts as a dummy GraphQL client, allowing you to test your views and interact with your Graphene-powered application programmatically.
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Some of the things you can do with the test client are:
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- Simulate Queries and Mutations and observe the response.
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- Test that a given query request is rendered by a given Django template, with a template context that contains certain values.
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Overview and a quick example
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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To use the test client, instantiate ``graphene.test.Client`` and retrieve GraphQL responses:
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.. code:: python
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from graphene.test import Client
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def test_hey():
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client = Client(my_schema)
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executed = client.execute('''{ hey }''')
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assert executed == {
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'data': {
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'hey': 'hello!'
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}
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}
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Execute parameters
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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You can also add extra keyword arguments to the ``execute`` method, such as
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``context``, ``root``, ``variables``, ...:
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.. code:: python
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from graphene.test import Client
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def test_hey():
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client = Client(my_schema)
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executed = client.execute('''{ hey }''', context={'user': 'Peter'})
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assert executed == {
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'data': {
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'hey': 'hello Peter!'
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}
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}
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Snapshot testing
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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As our APIs evolve, we need to know when our changes introduce any breaking changes that might break
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some of the clients of our GraphQL app.
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However, writing tests and replicating the same response we expect from our GraphQL application can be a
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tedious and repetitive task, and sometimes it's easier to skip this process.
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Because of that, we recommend the usage of `SnapshotTest <https://github.com/syrusakbary/snapshottest/>`_.
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SnapshotTest lets us write all these tests in a breeze, as it automatically creates the ``snapshots`` for us
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the first time the test are executed.
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Here is a simple example on how our tests will look if we use ``pytest``:
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.. code:: python
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def test_hey(snapshot):
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client = Client(my_schema)
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# This will create a snapshot dir and a snapshot file
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# the first time the test is executed, with the response
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# of the execution.
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snapshot.assert_match(client.execute('''{ hey }'''))
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If we are using ``unittest``:
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.. code:: python
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from snapshottest import TestCase
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class APITestCase(TestCase):
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def test_api_me(self):
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"""Testing the API for /me"""
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client = Client(my_schema)
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self.assertMatchSnapshot(client.execute('''{ hey }'''))
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