from ansible.compat.tests.mock import patch from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import xmlrpc_client import pytest def get_method_name(request_body): return xmlrpc_client.loads(request_body)[1] @pytest.fixture def mock_request(request, mocker): responses = request.getfixturevalue('testcase')['calls'] module_name = request.module.TESTED_MODULE def transport_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose=0): """Fake request""" method_name = get_method_name(request_body) excepted_name, response = responses.pop(0) if method_name == excepted_name: if isinstance(response, Exception): raise response else: return response else: raise Exception('Expected call: %r, called with: %r' % (excepted_name, method_name)) target = '{0}.xmlrpc_client.Transport.request'.format(module_name) mocker.patch(target, side_effect=transport_request)