Quickstart

The preferred way of using WireMock to mock your services is by using the provided WireMockContainer that uses testcontainers-python and provisions WireMock as a test container on-demand.

In this example we will use the pytest framework.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7 or above
• Pip 20.0.0 or above (use apt install python3-pip, for example)
• Pytest 7.3.0 or above (use pip install pytest)
• Testcontainers 3.5.0 or above (use pip install testcontainers)

Install Python WireMock

To install the most recent version of the Python WireMock library, use the following command:

pip install wiremock

Create the Test Fixture

As a first step, we will need to provision a test WireMock server to be used in tests:

1. Create an empty test.py file
2. In this file, create a pytest fixture to manage the container life-cycle. Use fixture scope to control how often the container is created
3. Set the WireMock SDK config URL to the URL exposed by the container. It will route all Admin API requests to the mock server.
4. Create REST API stub mapping for the /hello endpoint using the Admin SDK.

import pytest
import requests

from wiremock.testing.testcontainer import wiremock_container
from wiremock.constants import Config
from wiremock.client import *

@pytest.fixture # (1)
def wiremock_server():
    with wiremock_container(secure=False) as wm:
        Config.base_url = wm.get_url("__admin") # (2)
        Mappings.create_mapping(
            Mapping(
                request=MappingRequest(method=HttpMethods.GET, url="/hello"),
                response=MappingResponse(status=200, body="hello"),
                persistent=False,
            )
        ) # (3)      
        yield wm

Write your first test with WireMock

Use the wiremock_server fixture in your tests and make requests against the mock server. Add the following test to the test.py file:

def test_get_hello_world(wiremock_server): # (4)
    response = requests.get(wiremock_server.get_url("/hello"))

    assert response.status_code == 200
    assert response.content == b"hello"

Run the test!

Run the following command:

pytest test.py -v

Sample output:

$ pytest test.py -v
================ test session starts ================
platform linux -- Python 3.8.10, pytest-7.4.0, pluggy-1.2.0 -- /usr/bin/python3
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: /c/Users/Oleg/Documents/opensource/wiremock/python-wiremock
configfile: pyproject.toml
plugins: anyio-3.7.1
collected 1 item

test.py::test_get_hello_world PASSED                                [100%]

Read More

You can read more about Testcontainers support in Python WireMock here.

More examples

See this page for more example references