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using testrail api in python script

I have the curl command, but not sure about how to run that in python script.

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u "username:password" -d '{ "name":"something" }' "https://xxxxxxxx"

I'm planning to use subprocess, but the api documents aren't very helpful.

Also does anyone know how to get the sectionId from testrail?

Solution

  • You probably want to use the requests package for this. The curl command translates to something like this:

    import json
import requests

response = requests.post('https://xxxxxxxx',
                         data=json.dumps({'name': 'something'}),
                         headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
                         auth=('username', 'password'))
response_data = response.json()

    If you really want to use subprocess, you can do something like this:

    import subprocess

curl_args = ['curl', '-H', 'Content-Type: application/json', '-u', 'username:password',
             '-d', '{ "name":"something" }', 'https://xxxxxxxx']
curl_output = subprocess.check_output(curl_args)

    I consider the latter approach less "Pythonic".