Simple Flask Example with Testing

tl;dr

This is a toy Flask HTTP API (not really RESTful) that get contentLengths for a list of URLs, mainly used to demonstrate testing.

Note that this was tested using Python 3.7 and will certainly not work in Python 2.

Install and Run

1. Clone the git directory.

git clone git@github.com:davidfaulkner12/content_length_service.git

2. (Optional) Create a virtualenv in that directory.

virtualenv content_length_service
source content_length_service/bin/activate

3. Install the requirements

cd content_length_service
pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the tests.

python -m unittest tests/test_*

5. (Optional) Run the conformance tests with the "real" urllib from the standard library.

python conformance_test/run_http_gateway.py

6. (Optional) Run the app (with a stub library).

python app.py
curl -i  -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json"  -d '{"urls":["https://www.bbc.com/","https://www.google.com/"]}' http://localhost:5000/content_lengths