clean up JSON code and docs

CHANGES

@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ Major release, unreleased
 - Only open the session if the request has not been pushed onto the context
   stack yet. This allows ``stream_with_context`` generators to access the same
   session that the containing view uses. (`#2354`_)
+- Add ``json`` keyword argument for the test client request methods. This will
+  dump the given object as JSON and set the appropriate content type.
+  (`#2358`_)
+- Extract JSON handling to a mixin applied to both the request and response
+  classes used by Flask. This adds the ``is_json`` and ``get_json`` methods to
+  the response to make testing JSON response much easier. (`#2358`_)
 
 .. _#1489: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/1489
 .. _#1621: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/1621
@@ -91,6 +97,7 @@ Major release, unreleased
 .. _#2348: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2348
 .. _#2352: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2352
 .. _#2354: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2354
+.. _#2358: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2358
 
 Version 0.12.2
 --------------
@@ -126,11 +133,6 @@ Released on December 21st 2016, codename Punsch.
   ``application/octet-stream``. See pull request ``#1988``.
 - Make ``flask.safe_join`` able to join multiple paths like ``os.path.join``
   (pull request ``#1730``).
-- Added `json` keyword argument to :meth:`flask.testing.FlaskClient.open`
-  (and related ``get``, ``post``, etc.), which makes it more convenient to
-  send JSON requests from the test client.
-- Added ``is_json`` and ``get_json`` to :class:``flask.wrappers.Response``
-  in order to make it easier to build assertions when testing JSON responses.
 - Revert a behavior change that made the dev server crash instead of returning
   a Internal Server Error (pull request ``#2006``).
 - Correctly invoke response handlers for both regular request dispatching as

docs/testing.rst

@@ -382,28 +382,27 @@ Testing JSON APIs
 
 .. versionadded:: 1.0
 
-Flask has great support for JSON, and is a popular choice for building REST
+Flask has great support for JSON, and is a popular choice for building JSON
-APIs. Testing both JSON requests and responses using the test client is very
+APIs. Making requests with JSON data and examining JSON data in responses is
-convenient::
+very convenient::
 
-    from flask import jsonify
+    from flask import request, jsonify
 
     @app.route('/api/auth')
     def auth():
         json_data = request.get_json()
         email = json_data['email']
         password = json_data['password']
-
         return jsonify(token=generate_token(email, password))
 
     with app.test_client() as c:
-        email = 'john@example.com'
+        rv = c.post('/api/auth', json={
-        password = 'secret'
+            'username': 'flask', 'password': 'secret'
-        resp = c.post('/api/auth', json={'login': email, 'password': password})
+        })
-
+        json_data = rv.get_json()
-        json_data = resp.get_json()
         assert verify_token(email, json_data['token'])
 
-Note that if the ``json`` argument is provided then the test client will put
+Passing the ``json`` argument in the test client methods sets the request data
-JSON-serialized data in the request body, and also set the
+to the JSON-serialized object and sets the content type to
-``Content-Type: application/json`` HTTP header.
+``application/json``. You can get the JSON data from the request or response
+with ``get_json``.

flask/testing.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 
 def make_test_environ_builder(
-    app, path='/', base_url=None, subdomain=None, url_scheme=None, json=None,
+    app, path='/', base_url=None, subdomain=None, url_scheme=None,
     *args, **kwargs
 ):
     """Creates a new test builder with some application defaults thrown in."""
@@ -54,12 +54,14 @@ def make_test_environ_builder(
             path += sep + url.query
 
     if 'json' in kwargs:
-        if 'data' in kwargs:
+        assert 'data' not in kwargs, (
-            raise ValueError('Client cannot provide both `json` and `data`')
+            "Client cannot provide both 'json' and 'data'."
+        )
 
+        # push a context so flask.json can use app's json attributes
+        with app.app_context():
             kwargs['data'] = json_dumps(kwargs.pop('json'))
 
-        # Only set Content-Type when not explicitly provided
         if 'content_type' not in kwargs:
             kwargs['content_type'] = 'application/json'
 

flask/wrappers.py

@@ -8,111 +8,106 @@
     :copyright: (c) 2015 by Armin Ronacher.
     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
+from warnings import warn
 
-from werkzeug.wrappers import Request as RequestBase, Response as ResponseBase
 from werkzeug.exceptions import BadRequest
+from werkzeug.wrappers import Request as RequestBase, Response as ResponseBase
 
-from . import json
+from flask import json
-from .globals import _app_ctx_stack
+from flask.globals import current_app
 
 
 class JSONMixin(object):
     """Common mixin for both request and response objects to provide JSON
     parsing capabilities.
 
-    .. versionadded:: 0.12
+    .. versionadded:: 1.0
     """
 
+    _cached_json = Ellipsis
+
     @property
     def is_json(self):
-        """Indicates if this request/response is in JSON format or not.  By
+        """Check if the mimetype indicates JSON data, either
-        default it is considered to include JSON data if the mimetype is
         :mimetype:`application/json` or :mimetype:`application/*+json`.
 
-        .. versionadded:: 1.0
+        .. versionadded:: 0.11
         """
         mt = self.mimetype
-        if mt == 'application/json':
+        return (
-            return True
+            mt == 'application/json'
-        if mt.startswith('application/') and mt.endswith('+json'):
+            or (mt.startswith('application/')) and mt.endswith('+json')
-            return True
+        )
-        return False
 
     @property
     def json(self):
-        """If this request/response is in JSON format then this property will
+        """This will contain the parsed JSON data if the mimetype indicates
-        contain the parsed JSON data.  Otherwise it will be ``None``.
+        JSON (:mimetype:`application/json`, see :meth:`is_json`), otherwise it
+        will be ``None``.
 
-        The :meth:`get_json` method should be used instead.
+        .. deprecated:: 1.0
+            Use :meth:`get_json` instead.
         """
-        from warnings import warn
         warn(DeprecationWarning(
-            'json is deprecated.  Use get_json() instead.'), stacklevel=2)
+            "'json' is deprecated. Use 'get_json()' instead."
+        ), stacklevel=2)
         return self.get_json()
 
     def _get_data_for_json(self, cache):
-        getter = getattr(self, 'get_data', None)
+        return self.get_data(cache=cache)
-        if getter is not None:
-            return getter(cache=cache)
-        return self.data
 
     def get_json(self, force=False, silent=False, cache=True):
-        """Parses the JSON request/response data and returns it.  By default
+        """Parse and return the data as JSON. If the mimetype does not indicate
-        this function will return ``None`` if the mimetype is not
+        JSON (:mimetype:`application/json`, see :meth:`is_json`), this returns
-        :mimetype:`application/json` but this can be overridden by the
+        ``None`` unless ``force`` is true. If parsing fails,
-        ``force`` parameter. If parsing fails the
+        :meth:`on_json_loading_failed` is called and its return value is used
-        :meth:`on_json_loading_failed` method on the request object will be
+        as the return value.
-        invoked.
+
-
+        :param force: Ignore the mimetype and always try to parse JSON.
-        :param force: if set to ``True`` the mimetype is ignored.
+        :param silent: Silence parsing errors and return ``None`` instead.
-        :param silent: if set to ``True`` this method will fail silently
+        :param cache: Store the parsed JSON to return for subsequent calls.
-                       and return ``None``.
-        :param cache: if set to ``True`` the parsed JSON data is remembered
-                      on the object.
         """
-        try:
+        if cache and self._cached_json is not Ellipsis:
-            return getattr(self, '_cached_json')
+            return self._cached_json
-        except AttributeError:
-            pass
 
         if not (force or self.is_json):
             return None
 
-        # We accept MIME charset header against the specification as certain
+        # We accept MIME charset against the specification as certain clients
-        # clients have been using this in the past.  For responses, we assume
+        # have used this in the past. For responses, we assume that if the
-        # that if the response charset was set explicitly then the data had
+        # charset is set then the data has been encoded correctly as well.
-        # been encoded correctly as well.
         charset = self.mimetype_params.get('charset')
+
         try:
-            data = self._get_data_for_json(cache)
+            data = self._get_data_for_json(cache=cache)
-            if charset is not None:
             rv = json.loads(data, encoding=charset)
-            else:
-                rv = json.loads(data)
         except ValueError as e:
             if silent:
                 rv = None
             else:
                 rv = self.on_json_loading_failed(e)
+
         if cache:
             self._cached_json = rv
+
         return rv
 
     def on_json_loading_failed(self, e):
-        """Called if decoding of the JSON data failed.  The return value of
+        """Called if :meth:`get_json` parsing fails and isn't silenced. If
-        this method is used by :meth:`get_json` when an error occurred.  The
+        this method returns a value, it is used as the return value for
-        default implementation just raises a :class:`BadRequest` exception.
+        :meth:`get_json`. The default implementation raises a
+        :class:`BadRequest` exception.
 
         .. versionchanged:: 0.10
-           Removed buggy previous behavior of generating a random JSON
+           Raise a :exc:`BadRequest` error instead of returning an error
-           response.  If you want that behavior back you can trivially
+           message as JSON. If you want that behavior you can add it by
-           add it by subclassing.
+           subclassing.
 
         .. versionadded:: 0.8
         """
-        ctx = _app_ctx_stack.top
+        if current_app is not None and current_app.debug:
-        if ctx is not None and ctx.app.debug:
             raise BadRequest('Failed to decode JSON object: {0}'.format(e))
+
         raise BadRequest()
 
 
@@ -153,9 +148,8 @@ class Request(RequestBase, JSONMixin):
     @property
     def max_content_length(self):
         """Read-only view of the ``MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH`` config key."""
-        ctx = _app_ctx_stack.top
+        if current_app:
-        if ctx is not None:
+            return current_app.config['MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH']
-            return ctx.app.config['MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH']
 
     @property
     def endpoint(self):
@@ -191,9 +185,12 @@ class Request(RequestBase, JSONMixin):
 
         # In debug mode we're replacing the files multidict with an ad-hoc
         # subclass that raises a different error for key errors.
-        ctx = _app_ctx_stack.top
+        if (
-        if ctx is not None and ctx.app.debug and \
+            current_app
-           self.mimetype != 'multipart/form-data' and not self.files:
+            and current_app.debug
+            and self.mimetype != 'multipart/form-data'
+            and not self.files
+        ):
             from .debughelpers import attach_enctype_error_multidict
             attach_enctype_error_multidict(self)
 
@@ -206,5 +203,13 @@ class Response(ResponseBase, JSONMixin):
 
     If you want to replace the response object used you can subclass this and
     set :attr:`~flask.Flask.response_class` to your subclass.
+
+    .. versionchanged:: 1.0
+        JSON support is added to the response, like the request. This is useful
+        when testing to get the test client response data as JSON.
     """
+
     default_mimetype = 'text/html'
+
+    def _get_data_for_json(self, cache):
+        return self.get_data()

tests/test_testing.py

@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def test_full_url_request(app, client):
 def test_json_request_and_response(app, client):
     @app.route('/echo', methods=['POST'])
     def echo():
-        return jsonify(flask.request.json)
+        return jsonify(flask.request.get_json())
 
     with client:
         json_data = {'drink': {'gin': 1, 'tonic': True}, 'price': 10}