Changelog

1.7.0 Unreleased but on master branch (tentative Pip release in December/Jan)

Features:

ALPHA: Python 3 support - all tests now pass!
JsonPath_Mini extractor supports ability to return the root response object now with the "." syntax -- thanks for the PR! svanoort#106
Allow for smarter URL creation from fragments: svanoort#118
Unicode support epic: fix handling of request body and a whole raft of smaller fixes + more tests: svanoort#104
Add terminal output coloring for pass/pail
- Thanks to @lerrua for his PR! svanoort#125

Bugfixes:

Whole raft of bugfixes around Unicode handling and request/response bodies
Fix bug in parsing of the curl_option argument - thanks to @jcelliot for noticing this
- Noted in svanoort#138
Fix HTTP PATCH method configuration - many thanks to @lerrua for his PR!
- Noted in svanoort#117
- Fixed in svanoort#129

Known Issues / Back-Compatibility:

Features:

BETA: Add a type testing comparator to assist with validating request/header bodies
- Issue: svanoort#90 (derived from online feedback)
BETA: Allow setting custom Curl options with the curl_option_optionname field on tests
BETA: support HTTP method types besides GET/PUT/POST/DELETE
BETA: support setting request body on all request types, if present
- Allows (for example) DELETE methods that set a request body
- Caveat: does not set length if 0
raw_body extractor that returns the full HTTP response body
- Requested in: svanoort#71
Add test coverage script (uses 'coverage', which requires install)

Bugfixes:

Fix bug with headers not being passed to extract_bind extrators, which caused:
- svanoort#70
- svanoort#63
Extractors did not raise an exception on failure: svanoort#64
Fix issue with use of curl WRITEDATA opt on CentOS 6 / Python 2.6 (use writefunction instead)
Fix/document installation issues with dependencies

Known Issues / Back-Compatibility:

Minor: generator letters/uppercase/lowercase are now always ASCII, not locale-aware
- Driven by python 3 compatibility, and probably more "correct" but still a change
Headers are now lists of (key, value) pairs, extractors need to be aware of this
- Will only be an issue for people using custom header extractors
- After some serious googling, as far as I can tell, nobody is using headers in custom extensions yet
- This can be patched into a back-compatibile approach if it breaks anyone

Misc:

Automation start (Jenkins setup, initial testing Dockerfiles) including 2.6 and 2.7 compat
Dockerfiles to create build/test environments
run_tests.sh now exits on first failure, and returns exit code (for automation)
- In PR: svanoort#82

Features

Command line argument --verbose to set verbose mode for PyRestTest
- Thanks @netjunki for your PR! svanoort#49
A series of fixes to move towards Python3 support
- Many thanks to @MorrisJobke for his assistances! svanoort#59
Add delay parameter to tests:
- Thanks to @netjunki for the PR! svanoort#51
Added option to print headers while running test via --print-headers option
- Thanks to @netjunki for the contribution: svanoort#56
Add support to give an absolute URL in tests and use the --absolute-url argument to ignore command-line URL
- Thanks to @Kesmy for the PR! svanoort#53

Bugfixes:

Fix the not_equals/ne comparator
- Thanks to @Kesmy for the PR! svanoort#54
Fix vars not being passed correctly from command line
- Thanks to @netjunki for the PR: svanoort#50

Back-compatibility breaks