How to mock a boto3 client object/call

Question

I\'m trying to mock one particular boto3 function. My module, Cleanup, imports boto3. Cleanup also has a class, \"cleaner\". During init, cleaner creates an ec2 client:

Answer 1

I found a solution to this when trying to mock a different method for the S3 client

import botocore
from mock import patch
import boto3

orig = botocore.client.BaseClient._make_api_call

def mock_make_api_call(self, operation_name, kwarg):
    if operation_name == 'DescribeTags':
        # Your Operation here!
        print(kwarg)
    return orig(self, operation_name, kwarg)

with patch('botocore.client.BaseClient._make_api_call', new=mock_make_api_call):
    client = boto3.client('ec2')
    # Calling describe tags will perform your mocked operation e.g. print args
    e = client.describe_tags()

Hope it helps :)