Subclass of ``slumber.API`` that patches ``requests.request`` with Django test client compatible HTTP requests.

slumber_django_testclient.py

from collections import namedtuple

from django.test import TestCase
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import slumber


class SlumberTestClientAPI(slumber.API):
    """
    Subclass of ``slumber.API`` that patches ``requests.request``
    with Django test client compatible HTTP requests.
    """
    client = None

    def __getattr__(self, name):
        """
        Hook into slumber's ``Resource`` allocation and patch its
        request method with our own.
        """
        resource = super(SlumberTestClientAPI, self).__getattr__(name)
        self.auth = resource._store["session"].auth
        if SlumberTestClientAPI.client:
            resource._store["session"].request = self.request
        return resource

    def request(self, method, url, data=None, params=None, headers=None):
        """
        Using the same signature as ``requests.request``, construct the
        correct method and args for Django's test client.
        """
        r = namedtuple("r", ("headers",))(headers or {})
        HTTPBasicAuth(*self.auth)(r)
        r.headers["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = r.headers.pop("Authorization")
        r.headers["content_type"] = r.headers.pop("content-type")
        if method != "GET":
            r.headers["data"] = data
        func = getattr(SlumberTestClientAPI.client, method.lower())
        return func(url.replace("http://testserver", "", 1), **r.headers)


class SimpleTest(TestCase):

    def some_test(self):
        SlumberTestClientAPI.client = self.client
        # do_something_that_takes_the_api_class(SlumberTestClientAPI)