@vytas7 I Would like to contribute , can you explain a bit the problem ?

Hi @hk-madhu!
At the time of writing, you can pass an object as json parameter to the test client's simulate_request() & friends, and it would be automatically serialized, Content-Type set up for you, etc, before passing the payload to the app.

I assume this issue aims to deliver that same functionality for testing APIs that leverage Msgpack instead of (or in addition to) JSON.

Hi, after checking some issues, I would like to take this one, is there somebody contributing?

I don't think so. Feel free to work on it!

Ok, is there any extra information I need to know to start working on it?

I don't think so. Feel free to ask if you have questions

How do I start tackling this problem? Should I do it on tox setup? Sorry if the questions seem simple, but this is my first time contributing on an open source project.

Hi @arthurprioli, no worries, these are valid questions!
First, you could just try to write a simple (hello-world like) Falcon app, and try running it, just to get a feeling of how to glue things together. Then, you can try writing a simple test using our test client, and running it with pytest.

For development of the framework itself, it is probably easiest to use an "editable" install so that you can run isolated tests even outside of tox:

$ FALCON_DISABLE_CYTHON=Y pip install -e .

Then, when you are comfortable with the very basics, check our contributor's guide: Contribute to Falcon.

Let us know if you have any other further questions!

Hey guys, sorry I took long to answer, we had a small holiday here in Brazil and I had a small travel. I'm currently finishing the get started tutorial on Falcon's official documentation, so I made some tests with pytest. I also read on how to contribute to Falcon. My question is: how should I start this issue? In order to add MessagePack support to the TestClient?

Hello guys, I took a bigger look on the source code and searched the web a bit about how to add dependencies as extra. Also read #333. What is setuptools? And what files should I take a look in order to add msgpack-python as an extra dependencie?

Hi again @arthurprioli, no, we don't want to add any hard dependencies on any 3rd party libraries.
Could you check how MessagePackHandler is currently implemented for inspiration?

Hello @vytas7, just took a look at it and also read how simulate_request() works. Should I create an additional msgpack parameter there and serialize with MessagePackHandler in other correlated functions?

Hey guys, i've tried something here, in simulate_requests, I added a new parameter msgpack and did a treatment similar to json, but instead of using the msgpack-python directly I used MessagePackHandler.

Hey guys, sorry if I'm sending a lot of messages, I documented the parameter msgpack added yesterdar and was running a few tox tests, but I'm not sure how to interpret the results showed on my terminal and how should I create some test to that new funcionality. Here follows a picture of the tox tests return.

Hi @arthurprioli, it is okay that you share information and ask questions, but please don't send text blocks as images, that's something I really don't like 👿

As to your issues, so ruff and pep8 are just formatting. Please read the contributor's guide on how to resolve these.

coverage probably means that your newly added code is not fully covered by the tests. There should be concrete lines and branches in the report table that you get.

Maybe you could join us on Gitter (falconry/dev) to discuss these issues more in realtime?