Release Notes

These are informal release notes for gabbi since version 1.0.0, highlighting major features and changes. For more detail see the commit logs on GitHub.

1.27.0

Allow gabbi-run to accept multiple filenames as command line arguments instead of reading tests from stdin.

1.26.0

Switch from response handlers to Content Handlers to allow more flexible processing of both response _and_ request bodies.

Add inner fixtures for per test fixtures, useful for output capturing.

1.25.0

Allow the test_loader_name arg to gabbi.driver.build_tests() to override the prefix of the pretty printed name of generated tests.

1.24.0

String values in JSONPath matches may be wrapped in /.../` to be treated as regular expressions.

1.23.0

Better documentation of how to run gabbi in a concurrent environment. Improved handling of pytest fixtures and test counts.

1.22.0

Add url to gabbi.driver.build_tests() to use instead of host, port and prefix.

1.21.0

Add require_ssl to gabbi.driver.build_tests() to force use of SSL.

1.20.0

Add $COOKIE substitution.

1.19.1

Correctly support IPV6 hosts.

1.19.0

Add $LAST_URL substitution.

1.17.0

Introduce support for loading and running tests with pytest.

1.16.0

Use urllib3 instead of httplib2 for driving HTTP requests.

1.13.0

Add sorting and filtering to JSONPath handling.

1.11.0

Add the response_forbidden_headers to response expectations.

1.7.0

Instead of:

tests:
- name: a simple get
  url: /some/path
  method: get

1.7.0 also makes it possible to:

tests:
- name: a simple get
  GET: /some/path

Any upper case key is treated as a method.

1.4.0 and 1.5.0

Enhanced flexibility and colorization when setting tests to be verbose.

1.3.0

Adds the query_parameters key to request parameters.

1.2.0

The start of improvements and extensions to JSONPath handling. In this case the addition of the len function.

1.1.0

Vastly improved output and behavior in gabbi-run.

1.0.0

Version 1 was the first release with a commitment to a stable Test Format. Since then new fields have been added but have not been taken away.

Contributors

The following people have contributed code to gabbi. Thanks to them. Thanks also to all the people who have made gabbi better by reporting issues and their successes and failures with using gabbi.

  • Chris Dent
  • FND
  • Mehdi Abaakouk
  • Jason Myers
  • Kim Raymoure
  • Michael McCune
  • Imran Hayder
  • Julien Danjou
  • Danek Duvall
  • Marc Abramowitz