test_curl.sh

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8" --request POST --data u"{'tag': u'Äüößäname'}" http://localhost:5000/

test_u_p_s.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#__author__ = 'khoffrath'

import unittest
from unittest import TestCase
import unicode_post_srv

class UnicodePostServerTestCase(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        unicode_post_srv.app.config['TESTING'] = True
        self.app = unicode_post_srv.app.test_client()

    def test_get(self):
        rv = self.app.get('/')
        self.assertEqual(rv.status_code, 200)
        self.assertTrue('GET' in rv.data)

    def test_post(self):
        rv = self.app.post('/')
        self.assertEqual(rv.status_code, 200)
        self.assertTrue('POST' in rv.data)

    def test_put(self):
        rv = self.app.put('/')
        self.assertEqual(rv.status_code, 200)
        self.assertTrue('PUT' in rv.data)

    def test_delete(self):
        rv = self.app.delete('/')
        self.assertEqual(rv.status_code, 200)
        self.assertTrue('DELETE' in rv.data)

    def test_post_unicode_valid(self):
        rv = self.app.post('/', data=u"{'tag': u'clean'}")
        self.assertEqual(rv.status_code, 200)
        self.assertTrue('POST' in rv.data)
    #@unittest.skip('')
    def test_post_unicode_invalid(self):
        rv = self.app.post('/', data=u"{'tag': u'Äüößäname'}")
        self.assertEqual(rv.status_code, 200)
        self.assertTrue('POST' in rv.data)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

unicode_post_srv.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#__author__ = 'khoffrath'

import flask

app = flask.Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE'])
def hello():
    return 'HTTP verb: ' + flask.request.method

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(debug=True)