Disable SMTP and HTTP requests during a test run.
Based mainly on https://github.com/andymckay/nose-blockage; source is available at https://github.com/rob-b/pytest-blockage
The plugin can be installed via pypi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-blockage/>
_::
$ pip install pytest-blockage
To activate the plugin the --blockage
parameter should be passed. e.g.::
$ py.test package --blockage
You can whitelist specific hosts::
$ py.test package --blockage --blockage-http-whitelist=some_site --blockage-smtp-whitelist=fake_smtp
All settings can be stored in your pytest file, with the same variable names as the argument names mentioned under usage::
blockage=true
blockage-http-whitelist=some_site
blockage-smtp-whitelist=fake_smtp