Is there a way I can call my local server, but mock the calls my api makes?

[joe-narvaez]

Let's say my api will call the pokemon api. Can I mock out the call to the pokemon api indirectly? For example,

from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
client = TestClient(app)

@pytest.mark.respx()
def test_create_team(respx_mock: Any) -> None:
    respx_mock.post(
        "https://graphql-pokemon2.vercel.app/",
        json={"query": f'{{ pokemon(id: "{pika_id}" ){{id name}} }}'},
    ).mock(
        return_value=Response(
            200, json={"data": {"pokemon": {"id": pika_id, "name": "Pikachu"}}}
        )
    )

    query = (
        f'mutation {{ createTeam(pokemonId: "{pika_id}"){{pokemon}} }}'
    )
    client.post("http://localhost:3000/graphql", json={"query": query})

Currently this fails as

 RESPX: <Request('POST', 'https://graphql-pokemon2.vercel.app/')> not mocked!

Is this possible?

[lundberg]

Need some more input to understand your setup.

Do you have your own rest api, built with fastapi, which in turn calls remotely to graphql-pokemon2.vercel.app using httpx?

[joe-narvaez]

I figured it out. With respx you need a testing (fastapi testing client,). I guess it gets closer to the call site and create the patch. With this you can toggle e2e (mocking external apis).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html#where-to-patch