Unittesting an app - unit-testing

Question

I'm trying to run a simple unit-test for a restful app I'm creating. The server runs perfectly and displays the json data. I'm looking for a test that confirms that the json data is a 'GET' request or confirms a say a 200 response status code
below is my directory structure
├── MealAPP
├── app
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── models.py
├── instance
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── config.py
├── manage.py
├── requirements.txt
├── run.py
└── test_mealapp.py
init.py
from flask_api import FlaskAPI
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask import Flask, jsonify, request
# local import
from instance.config import app_config
# initialize sql-alchemy
db = SQLAlchemy()
def create_app(config_name):
app = FlaskAPI(__name__, instance_relative_config=True)
app.config.from_object(app_config["development"])
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
db.init_app(app)
#app.route("/", methods=['GET'])
def test():
return jsonify({'message':'It works!'})
return app
test_mealapp.py
import unittest
import os
import json
from app import create_app
class FlaskTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def test_index(self):
"""Define test variables and initialize app."""
self.app = create_app(config_name="testing")
self.client = app.client.test_client
response = self.client("/")
# self.assertEqual(response[message],"It works!")
self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
Any tips on how to fix my test_mealapp.py?

Answer 1

This would work:
class FlaskTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def test_index(self):
self.app = create_app(config_name="testing")
with self.app.test_client() as client:
response = client.get("/")
responseJson = json.loads(response.data)
self.assertEqual(responseJson['message'], "It works!")
self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
Try to always use the client in a with: block and make sure to use the request method as the attribute to client (get in this case)