Migrating from Flask 2.1 to 2.2 failed a few unit tests of mine. It looks like we can no longer import flask.request top level in a test file (reproduced across Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10):
from flask import Flask
from flask import request
def test_something():
assert TrueThis gives a RuntimeError:
E RuntimeError: Working outside of request context.
E
E This typically means that you attempted to use functionality that needed
E an active HTTP request. Consult the documentation on testing for
E information about how to avoid this problem.
On my side the fix was simple: importing flask.request outside of the global scope, just when I actually need it (my actual tests create small Flask apps to test a client).
Edit: forgot to mention that this only occurs when pytest is run with --doctest-modules
Migrating from Flask 2.1 to 2.2 failed a few unit tests of mine. It looks like we can no longer import
flask.requesttop level in a test file (reproduced across Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10):This gives a
RuntimeError:On my side the fix was simple: importing
flask.requestoutside of the global scope, just when I actually need it (my actual tests create small Flask apps to test a client).Edit: forgot to mention that this only occurs when pytest is run with
--doctest-modules