I had been working on DjangoPyPI and trying to fix some tests related to XML-RPC that were failing in versions of Python < 2.7, because the testing was relying on specifics of the implementation of xmlrpclib in Python 2.7. I found some code at this blog post from Forest Bond that showed a better way to test XML-RPC views in Django, namely, by creating a special XML-RPC transport object that uses the Django test client. I extracted this out and tweaked it slightly to add tests and better compatibility across Python versions and published it on PyPI as…

Test Django XML-RPC views using the Django test client. Because you’re using the Django test client, you’re not actually sending HTTP requests and don’t need a server running.

Example usage:

from djangotestxmlrpc import DjangoTestClientXMLRPCTransport

class TestXmlRpc(django.test.TestCase):
    ...

    def test_list_package(self):
        pypi = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(
            "http://localhost/pypi/",
            transport=DjangoTestClientXMLRPCTransport(self.client))
        pypi_hits = pypi.list_packages()
        expected = ['foo']
        self.assertEqual(pypi_hits, expected)

Supported Python versions

• Python 2.5
• Python 2.6
• Python 2.7
• PyPy 1.9
• Python 3.1
• Python 3.2

or says tox:

~/dev/git-repos/djangotestxmlrpc$ tox
...
  py25: commands succeeded
  py26: commands succeeded
  py27: commands succeeded
  pypy: commands succeeded
  py31: commands succeeded
  py32: commands succeeded
  congratulations :)

You also can check the latest Travis CI results, but Travis doesn’t build all of the above platforms.

Issues

Send your bug reports and feature requests to https://github.com/msabramo/djangotestxmlrpc/issues