How to check status code of response changed to json?

Question

i have a question. I am doing rtsp client tests. This Client is our, works preety nice. Question is, is exist a way to check status of response if it return in json?

client.py

def get_paths(self):
   return requests.get(f"{self.API_URL}/v1/paths/list").json()

tests.py

def test_get_path(self):
    response = self.rtsp_client.get_paths()
    self.assertEqual(response, 200)

In this example , i got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/oliwer/Documents/repozytoriumGit/device-channels/project/backend/rtsp_simple_server_api/tests.py", line 99, in test_get_path
    self.assertEqual(response, 200)
AssertionError: {'items': {'none': {'confName': 'none', '[3105 chars][]}}} != 200

I understand why i got this output. I am just interested is exist a way to test status code of this response.

Ps. The point is that, i can't change request functionality, it has to return json, i wanted to get something like that:

tests.py

    def test_get_path(self):
       response = self.rtsp_client.get_path().command_that_can_reverse_json()_command
       self.assertEqual(response, 200)

I thought, that it is possible, when i have .json() method. In my opinion response is an object with this first response, but encoded to json file. So my thoughts were that i can reverse this operation, but i did not know how. In your opinion, i can't do that.

Answer 1

I would suggest, that you change your code like this

def get_paths():
   return requests.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1')

than you can access the status_code of the response with:

r = get_paths()
print(r.status_code)
>>> 200