This Flask extension provides simple utilities for testing your forms in Flask application.
The installation is thanks to the Python Package Index and pip really simple.
$ pip install Flask-fillinIf you only can use easy_install than use
$ easy_install Flask-fillinFlask-fillin requires to run some packages (they will be installed automatically if they not already installed):
- Flask
- lxml
from flask.ext.fillin import FormWrapper
client = FlaskClient(flask_app, response_wrapper=FormWrapper)
# form submission
response = client.get('/page_with_form')
response.form.fields['username'] = 'my username'
response.form.fields['password'] = 'secret'
response.form.fields['remember'] = True
response.form.submit(client)
# link navigation
response = client.get('/page_with_links')
response.link("#link-id").click(client)
# underlying parsed html
links = response.html.findall("a")
# file upload
with open("TestFile") as fh:
response.form.files['file'] = fh
response.form.submit(client)