Testing

structlog comes with tools for testing the logging behavior of your application.

If you need functionality similar to unittest.TestCase.assertLogs, or you want to capture all logs for some other reason, you can use the structlog.testing.capture_logs context manager:

>>> from structlog import get_logger
>>> from structlog.testing import capture_logs
>>> with capture_logs() as cap_logs:
...    get_logger().bind(x="y").info("hello")
>>> cap_logs
[{'x': 'y', 'event': 'hello', 'log_level': 'info'}]

You can build your own helpers using structlog.testing.LogCapture. For example a pytest fixture to capture log output could look like this:

@pytest.fixture(name="log_output")
def fixture_log_output():
    return LogCapture()

@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def fixture_configure_structlog(log_output):
    structlog.configure(
        processors=[log_output]
    )

def test_my_stuff(log_output):
    do_something()
    assert log_output.entries == [...]

Additionally structlog also ships with a logger that just returns whatever it gets passed into it: structlog.testing.ReturnLogger.

>>> from structlog import ReturnLogger
>>> ReturnLogger().msg(42) == 42
True
>>> obj = ["hi"]
>>> ReturnLogger().msg(obj) is obj
True
>>> ReturnLogger().msg("hello", when="again")
(('hello',), {'when': 'again'})