chore: ruff cleanup

docs/conf.py

@@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
 # documentation.
-html_theme_options = {
+html_theme_options = {}
-}
 
 # Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
 # html_theme_path = []
@@ -166,14 +165,7 @@ html_static_path = ['_static']
 # html_use_smartypants = True
 
 # Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
-html_sidebars = {
+html_sidebars = {'**': ['about.html', 'navigation.html', 'links.html', 'searchbox.html']}
-    '**': [
-        'about.html',
-        'navigation.html',
-        'links.html',
-        'searchbox.html'
-    ]
-}
 
 # Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
 # template names.
@@ -227,13 +219,10 @@ htmlhelp_basename = 'Glancesdoc'
 latex_elements = {
     # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
     # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
-
     # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
     # 'pointsize': '10pt',
-
     # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
     # 'preamble': '',
-
     # Latex figure (float) alignment
     # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
 }
@@ -242,8 +231,7 @@ latex_elements = {
 # (source start file, target name, title,
 #  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
 latex_documents = [
-    (master_doc, 'Glances.tex', 'Glances Documentation',
+    (master_doc, 'Glances.tex', 'Glances Documentation', 'Nicolas Hennion', 'manual'),
-     'Nicolas Hennion', 'manual'),
 ]
 
 # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
@@ -271,10 +259,7 @@ latex_documents = [
 
 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples
 # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
-man_pages = [
+man_pages = [('glances', 'glances', 'An eye on your system', '', 1)]
-    ('glances', 'glances', 'An eye on your system',
-     '', 1)
-]
 
 # If true, show URL addresses after external links.
 # man_show_urls = False
@@ -286,9 +271,15 @@ man_pages = [
 # (source start file, target name, title, author,
 #  dir menu entry, description, category)
 texinfo_documents = [
-    (master_doc, 'Glances', 'Glances Documentation',
+    (
-     author, 'Glances', 'One line description of project.',
+        master_doc,
-     'Miscellaneous'),
+        'Glances',
+        'Glances Documentation',
+        author,
+        'Glances',
+        'One line description of project.',
+        'Miscellaneous',
+    ),
 ]
 
 # Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.

glances/client.py

@@ -122,8 +122,9 @@ class GlancesClient(object):
             else:
                 self.log_and_exit(
                     (
-                        'Client and server not compatible: '
+                        'Client and server not compatible: ' 'Client version: {} / Server version: {}'.format(
-                        'Client version: {} / Server version: {}'.format(__version__, client_version)
+                            __version__, client_version
+                        )
                     )
                 )
                 return False

glances/exports/glances_restful/__init__.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 """RESTful interface class."""
 
-
 from glances.globals import listkeys
 from glances.logger import logger
 from glances.exports.export import GlancesExport

glances/folder_list.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Manage the folder list."""
+
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 

glances/globals.py

@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ import sys
 import platform
 import ujson
 from operator import itemgetter, methodcaller
-import unicodedata
-import types
 import subprocess
 from datetime import datetime
 import re
@@ -28,14 +26,8 @@ import base64
 import functools
 import weakref
 
-import queue
-from configparser import ConfigParser, NoOptionError, NoSectionError
 from statistics import mean
-from xmlrpc.client import Fault, ProtocolError, ServerProxy, Transport, Server
-from xmlrpc.server import SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler, SimpleXMLRPCServer
 from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
-from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
-from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 # Correct issue #1025 by monkey path the xmlrpc lib
 from defusedxml.xmlrpc import monkey_patch

glances/main.py

@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ Examples of use:
         )
         parser.add_argument(
             '--enable-irq', action='store_true', default=False, dest='enable_irq', help='enable IRQ module'
-        ),
+        )
         parser.add_argument(
             '--enable-process-extended',
             action='store_true',
@@ -255,14 +255,14 @@ Examples of use:
             default=True,
             dest='enable_separator',
             help='disable separator in the UI (between top and others modules)',
-        ),
+        )
         parser.add_argument(
             '--disable-cursor',
             action='store_true',
             default=False,
             dest='disable_cursor',
             help='disable cursor (process selection) in the UI',
-        ),
+        )
         # Sort processes list
         parser.add_argument(
             '--sort-processes',

glances/outdated.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class Outdated(object):
         self.cache_file = os.path.join(self.cache_dir, 'glances-version.db')
 
         # Set default value...
-        self.data = {u'installed_version': __version__, u'latest_version': '0.0', u'refresh_date': datetime.now()}
+        self.data = {'installed_version': __version__, 'latest_version': '0.0', 'refresh_date': datetime.now()}
 
         # Disable update check if `packaging` is not installed
         if not PACKAGING_IMPORT:
@@ -154,14 +154,14 @@ class Outdated(object):
         logger.debug("Get latest Glances version from the PyPI RESTful API ({})".format(PYPI_API_URL))
 
         # Update the current time
-        self.data[u'refresh_date'] = datetime.now()
+        self.data['refresh_date'] = datetime.now()
 
         try:
             res = urlopen(PYPI_API_URL, timeout=3).read()
         except (HTTPError, URLError, CertificateError) as e:
             logger.debug("Cannot get Glances version from the PyPI RESTful API ({})".format(e))
         else:
-            self.data[u'latest_version'] = json.loads(nativestr(res))['info']['version']
+            self.data['latest_version'] = json.loads(nativestr(res))['info']['version']
             logger.debug("Save Glances version to the cache file")
 
         # Save result to the cache file

glances/outputs/glances_curses.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Curses interface class."""
+
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import sys

glances/outputs/glances_restful_api.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from io import open
 import webbrowser
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
 
-try:    
+try:
     from typing import Annotated
 except ImportError:
     # Only for Python 3.8

glances/outputs/glances_stdout_apidoc.py

@@ -75,9 +75,7 @@ WebUI refresh
 It is possible to change the Web UI refresh rate (default is 2 seconds) using the following option in the URL:
 ``http://localhost:61208/glances/?refresh=5``
 
-""".format(
+""".format(api_version=__apiversion__)
-    api_version=__apiversion__
-)
 
 
 def indent_stat(stat, indent='    '):

glances/outputs/glances_unicode.py

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
 """Manage unicode message for Glances output."""
 
 _unicode_message = {
-    'ARROW_LEFT': [u'\u2190', u'<'],
+    'ARROW_LEFT': ['\u2190', '<'],
-    'ARROW_RIGHT': [u'\u2192', u'>'],
+    'ARROW_RIGHT': ['\u2192', '>'],
-    'ARROW_UP': [u'\u2191', u'^'],
+    'ARROW_UP': ['\u2191', '^'],
-    'ARROW_DOWN': [u'\u2193', u'v'],
+    'ARROW_DOWN': ['\u2193', 'v'],
-    'CHECK': [u'\u2713', u''],
+    'CHECK': ['\u2713', ''],
-    'PROCESS_SELECTOR': [u'>', u'>'],
+    'PROCESS_SELECTOR': ['>', '>'],
-    'MEDIUM_LINE': [u'\u23AF', u'-'],
+    'MEDIUM_LINE': ['\u23af', '-'],
-    'LOW_LINE': [u'\u2581', u'_'],
+    'LOW_LINE': ['\u2581', '_'],
 }
 
 

glances/plugins/connections/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Connections plugin."""
+
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from glances.logger import logger

glances/plugins/containers/engines/docker.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Docker Extension unit for Glances' Containers plugin."""
+
 import time
 
 from glances.globals import iterkeys, itervalues, nativestr, pretty_date, replace_special_chars

glances/plugins/containers/engines/podman.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only
 
 """Podman Extension unit for Glances' Containers plugin."""
+
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from glances.globals import iterkeys, itervalues, nativestr, pretty_date, string_value_to_float, replace_special_chars

glances/plugins/diskio/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Disk I/O plugin."""
+
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from glances.logger import logger

glances/plugins/folders/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Folder plugin."""
+
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from glances.logger import logger

glances/plugins/fs/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """File system plugin."""
+
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import operator
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ class PluginModel(GlancesPluginModel):
                     'device_name': fs.device,
                     'fs_type': fs.fstype,
                     # Manage non breaking space (see issue #1065)
-                    'mnt_point': u(fs.mountpoint).replace(u'\u00A0', ' '),
+                    'mnt_point': u(fs.mountpoint).replace('\u00a0', ' '),
                     'size': fs_usage.total,
                     'used': fs_usage.used,
                     'free': fs_usage.free,

glances/plugins/help/__init__.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Help plugin.
 
 Just a stupid plugin to display the help screen.
 """
+
 import sys
 from glances.globals import iteritems
 from glances import __version__, psutil_version

glances/plugins/network/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Network plugin."""
+
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from glances.plugins.plugin.model import GlancesPluginModel

glances/plugins/sensors/__init__.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 """Sensors plugin."""
+
 from enum import Enum
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from typing import List, Dict, Literal, Any
@@ -369,8 +370,7 @@ class GlancesGrabSensors(object):
                     sensors_current['label'] = feature.label
                 # Sensors value, limit and unit
                 sensors_current['unit'] = self.sensor_unit
-                sensors_current['value'] = int(
+                sensors_current['value'] = int(getattr(feature, 'current', 0) if getattr(feature, 'current', 0) else 0)
-                    getattr(feature, 'current', 0) if getattr(feature, 'current', 0) else 0)
                 system_warning = getattr(feature, 'high', None)
                 system_critical = getattr(feature, 'critical', None)
                 sensors_current['warning'] = int(system_warning) if system_warning is not None else None

glances/snmp.py

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class GlancesSNMPClient(object):
                 cmdgen.UdpTransportTarget((self.host, self.port)),
                 non_repeaters,
                 max_repetitions,
-                *oid
+                *oid,
             )
         if self.version.startswith('2'):
             errorIndication, errorStatus, errorIndex, varBindTable = self.cmdGen.bulkCmd(
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class GlancesSNMPClient(object):
                 cmdgen.UdpTransportTarget((self.host, self.port)),
                 non_repeaters,
                 max_repetitions,
-                *oid
+                *oid,
             )
         else:
             # Bulk request are not available with SNMP version 1

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ skip-string-normalization = true
 exclude = '\./glances/outputs/static/*'
 
 [tool.ruff]
+line-length = 120
+target-version = "py38"
+
+[tool.ruff.format]
+quote-style = "preserve"
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
 # Enable pycodestyle (`E`) and Pyflakes (`F`) codes by default.
 select = ["E", "F"]
 ignore = []
@@ -34,18 +41,13 @@ exclude = [
     "dist",
     "node_modules",
     "venv",
-    "docs"
+    "docs",
+    "./glances/outputs/static/*"
 ]
 
-# Same as Black.
-line-length = 120
-
 # Allow unused variables when underscore-prefixed.
 dummy-variable-rgx = "^(_+|(_+[a-zA-Z0-9_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+?))$"
 
-# Assume Python 3.11
+[tool.ruff.lint.mccabe]
-target-version = "py311"
-
-[tool.ruff.mccabe]
 # Unlike Flake8, default to a complexity level of 10.
 max-complexity = 10

run.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import re
 import sys
 from glances import main
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
     sys.exit(main())

setup.py

@@ -32,16 +32,20 @@ with open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8') as f:
 
 def get_data_files():
     data_files = [
-        ('share/doc/glances', ['AUTHORS', 'COPYING', 'NEWS.rst', 'README.rst', "SECURITY.md",
+        (
-                               'CONTRIBUTING.md', 'conf/glances.conf']),
+            'share/doc/glances',
-        ('share/man/man1', ['docs/man/glances.1'])
+            ['AUTHORS', 'COPYING', 'NEWS.rst', 'README.rst', "SECURITY.md", 'CONTRIBUTING.md', 'conf/glances.conf'],
+        ),
+        ('share/man/man1', ['docs/man/glances.1']),
     ]
 
     return data_files
 
+
 with open('requirements.txt') as f:
     required = f.read().splitlines()
 
+
 def get_install_requires():
     requires = required
     if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
@@ -59,10 +63,23 @@ def get_install_extras_require():
         'browser': ['zeroconf>=0.19.1'],
         'cloud': ['requests'],
         'containers': ['docker>=6.1.1', 'python-dateutil', 'six', 'podman', 'packaging'],
-        'export': ['bernhard', 'cassandra-driver', 'elasticsearch', 'graphitesender',
+        'export': [
-                   'ibmcloudant', 'influxdb>=1.0.0', 'influxdb-client', 'pymongo',
+            'bernhard',
-                   'kafka-python', 'pika', 'paho-mqtt', 'potsdb', 'prometheus_client',
+            'cassandra-driver',
-                   'pyzmq', 'statsd'],
+            'elasticsearch',
+            'graphitesender',
+            'ibmcloudant',
+            'influxdb>=1.0.0',
+            'influxdb-client',
+            'pymongo',
+            'kafka-python',
+            'pika',
+            'paho-mqtt',
+            'potsdb',
+            'prometheus_client',
+            'pyzmq',
+            'statsd',
+        ],
         'gpu': ['nvidia-ml-py'],
         'graph': ['pygal'],
         'ip': ['netifaces'],
@@ -71,7 +88,7 @@ def get_install_extras_require():
         'snmp': ['pysnmp'],
         'sparklines': ['sparklines'],
         'web': ['fastapi', 'uvicorn', 'jinja2', 'requests'],
-        'wifi': ['wifi']
+        'wifi': ['wifi'],
     }
     if sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
         extras_require['sensors'] = ['batinfo']
@@ -94,6 +111,7 @@ class tests(Command):
     def run(self):
         import subprocess
         import sys
+
         for t in glob.glob('unittest-core.py'):
             ret = subprocess.call([sys.executable, t]) != 0
             if ret != 0:
@@ -138,6 +156,6 @@ setup(
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
-        'Topic :: System :: Monitoring'
+        'Topic :: System :: Monitoring',
-    ]
+    ],
 )

unittest-core.py

@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ test_config = core.get_config()
 test_args = core.get_args()
 
 # Init Glances stats
-stats = GlancesStats(config=test_config,
+stats = GlancesStats(config=test_config, args=test_args)
-                     args=test_args)
 
 # Unitest class
 # ==============
@@ -78,7 +77,14 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIsInstance(plugin_instance.get_raw(), (dict, list))
         if plugin_instance.history_enable() and isinstance(plugin_instance.get_raw(), dict):
             self.assertEqual(plugin_instance.get_key(), None)
-            self.assertTrue(all([f in [h['name'] for h in plugin_instance.items_history_list] for f in plugin_instance.get_raw_history()]))
+            self.assertTrue(
+                all(
+                    [
+                        f in [h['name'] for h in plugin_instance.items_history_list]
+                        for f in plugin_instance.get_raw_history()
+                    ]
+                )
+            )
         elif plugin_instance.history_enable() and isinstance(plugin_instance.get_raw(), list):
             self.assertNotEqual(plugin_instance.get_key(), None)
 
@@ -135,11 +141,17 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
             if isinstance(plugin_instance.get_raw(), dict):
                 first_history_field = plugin_instance.get_items_history_list()[0]['name']
             elif isinstance(plugin_instance.get_raw(), list):
-                first_history_field = '_'.join([plugin_instance.get_raw()[0][plugin_instance.get_key()],
+                first_history_field = '_'.join(
-                                                plugin_instance.get_items_history_list()[0]['name']])
+                    [
+                        plugin_instance.get_raw()[0][plugin_instance.get_key()],
+                        plugin_instance.get_items_history_list()[0]['name'],
+                    ]
+                )
             self.assertEqual(len(plugin_instance.get_raw_history(first_history_field)), 2)
-            self.assertGreater(plugin_instance.get_raw_history(first_history_field)[1][0],
+            self.assertGreater(
-                               plugin_instance.get_raw_history(first_history_field)[0][0])
+                plugin_instance.get_raw_history(first_history_field)[1][0],
+                plugin_instance.get_raw_history(first_history_field)[0][0],
+            )
 
             # Update stats (add third element)
             plugin_instance.update()
@@ -158,10 +170,8 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
         elif isinstance(plugin_instance.get_raw(), list):
             first_history_field = plugin_instance.get_items_history_list()[0]['name']
             first_item = plugin_instance.get_raw()[0][plugin_instance.get_key()]
-            self.assertIsInstance(plugin_instance.get_views(item=first_item,
+            self.assertIsInstance(plugin_instance.get_views(item=first_item, key=first_history_field), dict)
-                                                            key=first_history_field), dict)
+            self.assertTrue('decoration' in plugin_instance.get_views(item=first_item, key=first_history_field))
-            self.assertTrue('decoration' in plugin_instance.get_views(item=first_item,
-                                                                      key=first_history_field))
         self.assertIsInstance(json.loads(plugin_instance.get_json_views()), dict)
         self.assertEqual(json.loads(plugin_instance.get_json_views()), plugin_instance.get_views())
 
@@ -352,12 +362,14 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_016_subsample(self):
         """Test subsampling function."""
         print('INFO: [TEST_016] Subsampling')
-        for l_test in [([1, 2, 3], 4),
+        for l_test in [
-                       ([1, 2, 3, 4], 4),
+            ([1, 2, 3], 4),
-                       ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], 4),
+            ([1, 2, 3, 4], 4),
-                       ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], 4),
+            ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], 4),
-                       (list(range(1, 800)), 4),
+            ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], 4),
-                       (list(range(1, 8000)), 800)]:
+            (list(range(1, 800)), 4),
+            (list(range(1, 8000)), 800),
+        ]:
             l_subsample = subsample(l_test[0], l_test[1])
             self.assertLessEqual(len(l_subsample), l_test[1])
 
@@ -501,8 +513,9 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
         plugins_list = stats.getPluginsList()
         for plugin in plugins_list:
             for method in mandatories_methods:
-                self.assertTrue(hasattr(stats.get_plugin(plugin), method),
+                self.assertTrue(
-                                msg='{} has no method {}()'.format(plugin, method))
+                    hasattr(stats.get_plugin(plugin), method), msg='{} has no method {}()'.format(plugin, method)
+                )
 
     def test_096_views(self):
         """Test get_views method"""
@@ -511,14 +524,14 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
         for plugin in plugins_list:
             stats.get_plugin(plugin).get_raw()
             views_grab = stats.get_plugin(plugin).get_views()
-            self.assertTrue(isinstance(views_grab, dict),
+            self.assertTrue(isinstance(views_grab, dict), msg='{} view is not a dict'.format(plugin))
-                            msg='{} view is not a dict'.format(plugin))
 
     def test_097_attribute(self):
         """Test GlancesAttribute classes"""
         print('INFO: [TEST_097] Test attribute')
         # GlancesAttribute
         from glances.attribute import GlancesAttribute
+
         a = GlancesAttribute('a', description='ad', history_max_size=3)
         self.assertEqual(a.name, 'a')
         self.assertEqual(a.description, 'ad')
@@ -542,6 +555,7 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
         print('INFO: [TEST_098] Test history')
         # GlancesHistory
         from glances.history import GlancesHistory
+
         h = GlancesHistory()
         h.add('a', 1, history_max_size=100)
         h.add('a', 2, history_max_size=100)
@@ -633,10 +647,8 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
         print('INFO: [TEST_700] Secure functions')
 
         if WINDOWS:
-            self.assertIn(secure_popen('echo TEST'), ['TEST\n',
+            self.assertIn(secure_popen('echo TEST'), ['TEST\n', 'TEST\r\n'])
-                                                      'TEST\r\n'])
+            self.assertIn(secure_popen('echo TEST1 && echo TEST2'), ['TEST1\nTEST2\n', 'TEST1\r\nTEST2\r\n'])
-            self.assertIn(secure_popen('echo TEST1 && echo TEST2'), ['TEST1\nTEST2\n',
-                                                                     'TEST1\r\nTEST2\r\n'])
         else:
             self.assertEqual(secure_popen('echo -n TEST'), 'TEST')
             self.assertEqual(secure_popen('echo -n TEST1 && echo -n TEST2'), 'TEST1TEST2')
@@ -647,6 +659,7 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_800_memory_leak(self):
         """Memory leak check"""
         import tracemalloc
+
         print('INFO: [TEST_800] Memory leak check')
         tracemalloc.start()
         # 3 iterations just to init the stats and fill the memory

unittest-restful.py

@@ -43,12 +43,9 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
     def http_get(self, url, gzip=False):
         """Make the request"""
         if gzip:
-            ret = requests.get(url,
+            ret = requests.get(url, stream=True, headers={'Accept-encoding': 'gzip'})
-                               stream=True,
-                               headers={'Accept-encoding': 'gzip'})
         else:
-            ret = requests.get(url,
+            ret = requests.get(url, headers={'Accept-encoding': 'identity'})
-                               headers={'Accept-encoding': 'identity'})
         return ret
 
     def test_000_start_server(self):
@@ -102,9 +99,24 @@ class TestGlances(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertTrue(req.ok)
             if p in ('uptime', 'version', 'psutilversion'):
                 self.assertIsInstance(req.json(), text_type)
-            elif p in ('fs', 'percpu', 'sensors', 'alert', 'processlist', 'diskio',
+            elif p in (
-                       'hddtemp', 'batpercent', 'network', 'folders', 'amps', 'ports',
+                'fs',
-                       'irq', 'wifi', 'gpu', 'containers'):
+                'percpu',
+                'sensors',
+                'alert',
+                'processlist',
+                'diskio',
+                'hddtemp',
+                'batpercent',
+                'network',
+                'folders',
+                'amps',
+                'ports',
+                'irq',
+                'wifi',
+                'gpu',
+                'containers',
+            ):
                 self.assertIsInstance(req.json(), list)
                 if len(req.json()) > 0:
                     self.assertIsInstance(req.json()[0], dict)