How can I fake request.POST and GET params for unit testing in Flask?

Question

I would like to fake request parameters for unit testing. How can I achieve this in Flask?

Answer 1

here is a complete code example of a unit test

testapp = app.test_client()

class Test_test(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_user_registration_bad_password_short(self):
        response = self.register(name='pat',
                                 email='me@mail.com', 
                                 password='Flask', 
                                 password2='Flask')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        self.assertIn(b'password should be 8 or more characters long', 
                      response.data)

    def register(self, name, email, password, password2):
        return testapp.post(
            '/register',
            data=dict(username=name, 
                      email=email, 
                      password=password, 
                      password2=password2),
            follow_redirects=True
        )