============ Flask-fillin

This Flask extension provides simple utilities for testing your forms in Flask application.

Installation

The installation is thanks to the Python Package Index and pip_ really simple.

::

$ pip install Flask-fillin

If you only can use easy_install than use

::

$ easy_install Flask-fillin

.. _pip: http://pip.openplans.org/

Flask-fillin requires to run some packages (they will be installed automatically if they not already installed):

• Flask
• lxml

Example Usage

::

from flask.ext.fillin import FormWrapper

client = FlaskClient(flask_app, response_wrapper=FormWrapper)

form submission

response = client.get('/page_with_form')

response.form.fields['username'] = 'my username' response.form.fields['password'] = 'secret' response.form.fields['remember'] = True

response.form.submit(client)

link navigation

response = client.get('/page_with_links') response.link("#link-id").click(client)

underlying parsed html

links = response.html.findall("a")