Mocking library #798

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1. CaptainDriftwood

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   on Feb 3, 2023
2. CaptainDriftwood

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   antusus

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   arjankowski

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   bartlomiejleszczynski

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   lukaszsocha2

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   mhagmajer

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   mwwoda

   on Feb 3, 2023
3. lukaszsocha2 commented on Feb 3, 2023

   

   lukaszsocha2

   on Feb 3, 2023

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   Hi @Jasonca2,
   currently we don't have any plans to implement box SDK mock available for testing. I'll bring this topic as an idea for an improvement to discuss during next team planning. In Python SDK test.unit folder we have many mock fixtures and maybe some of them could be reused in your project.
   Best,
   @lukaszsocha2
4. salderma commented on Mar 9, 2023

   

   salderma

   on Mar 9, 2023

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   I'd like to throw my support behind @Jasonca2 's request. I've just started my first project with boxsdk and would love to have an easier means to test my code that wraps the boxsdk with out having to mock everyhing I'm using in the SDK...which is something of a struggle, even with the examples in this repo's test folder.

   Supposing I wrote a python script to perform this example task from the SDK Doc Site https://developer.box.com/guides/authentication/tokens/sdks/ -

   from boxsdk import Client, OAuth2
   
   oauth = OAuth2(
       client_id='YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
       client_secret='YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET',
       access_token='ACCESS_TOKEN',
       refresh_token='REFRESH_TOKEN',
   )
   
   client = Client(oauth)
   
   user = client.user().get()
   print(f'User ID is {user.id}')
   

   To run pytest or mock assertions on this, with fake data for client_id, client_secret, etc. I'd have to mock the OAuth2, Client, and Client.user().get() objects, and set tghe value of the user's ID and make an assertion against the returned ID.