test_header_with_subclass_types() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the test_header_with_subclass_types() function in test_requests.py from the requests codebase.

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  22b80b19_26d4_cd0e_c476_3edf87b3df14["TestRequests"]
  34ffbdf6_d929_5249_7668_75cd80723005 -->|defined in| 22b80b19_26d4_cd0e_c476_3edf87b3df14
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Source Code

tests/test_requests.py lines 1822–1845

    def test_header_with_subclass_types(self, httpbin):
        """If the subclasses does not behave *exactly* like
        the base bytes/str classes, this is not supported.
        This test is for backwards compatibility.
        """

        class MyString(str):
            pass

        class MyBytes(bytes):
            pass

        r_str = requests.get(httpbin("get"), headers={MyString("x-custom"): "myheader"})
        assert r_str.request.headers["x-custom"] == "myheader"

        r_bytes = requests.get(
            httpbin("get"), headers={MyBytes(b"x-custom"): b"myheader"}
        )
        assert r_bytes.request.headers["x-custom"] == b"myheader"

        r_mixed = requests.get(
            httpbin("get"), headers={MyString("x-custom"): MyBytes(b"myheader")}
        )
        assert r_mixed.request.headers["x-custom"] == b"myheader"