Tell between recorded and real response without logging

[deeplook]

It seems like the only way to tell if a request response actually comes from a cassette or is a real, fresh response of some API is to use the logging mechanism described for debugging here: https://vcrpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugging.html. It would be helpful to have a simpler way without involving the logging machinery, maybe by writing a flag into vcr.VCR objects.

[deeplook]

Well, something like this might work. Is this the recommended way?

import vcr
from vcr.cassette import Cassette
from vcr.request import Request

path = 'headers.yml'

# execute one request, record response
with vcr.use_cassette(path):
    resp = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/headers')

# test if some request has been recorded 
req = Request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org/headers', 'irrelevant body?', {'foo': 'not checked'})
assert Cassette(None).load(path=path).can_play_response_for(req) == True
assert req in Cassette(None).load(path=path)

[deeplook]

I'm leaving this open in the hope that something similar might end up in the documentation...

[neozenith]

A lot of changes have happened to VCRpy since this ticket was opened. As this ticket has become stale and we have a lot of old tickets that need to be groomed, I'm closing this for now to make it easier to see what is still relevant.

However if it is still needed, please feel free to re-open or create a new ticket.

Thanks! 🙏