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I am performing the API Testing and using the pytest framework. Test is failing all the time with 401 error. Couldn't figure out what was the issue and where am I going wrong. When I manually test it using Postman, it is working.

Here is the code :

import requests
import json,jsonpath
import urllib3
import constants
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)

# variables
dumpFile = "somepath"
url = "someUrl"
headers = {'Authorization' : constants.consts['siteToken']}
#siteToken = 'Bearer jwt token'

# read json input file
input_file = open("json file path", 'r')
json_input = input_file.read()
request_json = json.loads(json_input)

# make POST request with JSON Input Body
r = requests.post(url, request_json)
print(r.content)

# Verification of the response
def test_result():
    assert r.status_code == 200

# fetch header from response
print(r.headers.get("Date"))

# parse response to JSON Format
response_json = json.loads(r.text)

# validate response using Json Path
name = jsonpath.jsonpath(response_json, 'name')
print(name)

Error is as below :

test_post.py::test_result FAILED [100%]
test__post.py:35 (test_result)
404 != 200

200
404
<Click to see difference>

def test_result():
> assert r.status_code == 200
E assert 404 == 200

test__post.py:37: AssertionError


================================== FAILURES ===================================
_________________________________ test_result _________________________________

def test_result():
> assert r.status_code == 200
E assert 404 == 200

test__post.py:37: AssertionError
============================== 1 failed in 0.42s ==============================
Process finished with exit code 0

Assertion failed

Assertion failed

That's look like you are getting 404 in return.
If you print r.status_code before test function i guess it don't give 200 back.
Example with some working code you can test with.

import requests

request_json = 'yellow'
r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", json={"color": request_json})
print(r.status_code)
print(r.content)

def test_result():
    assert r.status_code == 200

def test_json_result():
    json_data = r.json()  
    assert json_data['json']['color'] == 'yellow'

Output:
E:\div_code\tq
λ pytest
=========================================================== test session starts =========================================================== platform win32 -- Python 3.7.3, pytest-5.3.1, py-1.8.0, pluggy-0.13.0
rootdir: E:\div_code\tq, inifile: pytest.ini
collected 2 items

test_200.py ..

Thank you very much. I did it and the suggestion is working. However, the program threw the following error.
I am accessing JSON payload/schema using the .json file constructed with the schema below.

b'{"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"Invalid request payload JSON format"}'

Looks like my JSON schema formatting is incorrect.

Here is my JSON Schema. Is there a specific way to build it ?

{
  "_id": "5deac2277",
  "marid": 1105960446
}

Try using the json parameter json=request_json.

import requests

request_json = {
  "_id": "5deac2277",
  "marid": 1105960446
}

r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", json=request_json)

Output:
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> j = r.json()
>>> j.get('json')['_id']
'5deac2277'
>>> j.get('json')['marid']
1105960446

Thank you so very much.
Right way is the request to send as :

r = requests.post(url, json=request_json, headers=headers)

not as : data=request_json

I did the "data=request_json" and hence it is failing.

I really appreciate your help. This has solved many in our list to test.
I have no words to thank you, but

Merry Christmas

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