Add compatibility with requests-mock

[1kastner]

When I want to test my programm with requests_mocks, the program runs into recursion. A small example can be found at this gist.

[jordansamuels]

This is an issue for me as well.

[bachya]

Me too. For reference, the CacheControl library (a different approach to caching Requests calls) works fine with requests-mock.

[Demborg]

Just ran into this myself

[JWCook]

It appears that both requests-cache and requests-mock work by patching requests.Session. So whichever gets called last will override the other.

It may be possible to combine both by refactoring CachedSession to be usable as a Mixin class, and add a function to requests-cache that takes a Session object patched by requests-mock and returns a new Session object with the requests-mock mixin added. There might be better solutions, though.

Is this something that anyone would like to submit a PR for?

[JWCook]

Since this is the same fundamental issue as #158 (which I am working on now), I'm going to close this issue.

[JWCook]

Done. See examples in PR #183.