Pyresttest

**Bugfixes:**
- Fix threading issue with changing relative paths & reading files
- Thank you to akshay059 for opening an issue for this https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/183

**Features:**
* Mention new Atom editor package for PyRestTest, created by BastienAr (Thank you!)
* Strip duplicate backslashes in templated URLs
- Thank you danielatdattrixdotcom for you PR! - https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/182

**Special mentions:**
- Big thank you to spradeev for assisting with issues and questions, to free up time for working on code/architectural improvments for big features!

**Bugfixes:**
* Fix JSONschema extension in Python 3, and add test coverage for it
- Thanks to BastienAr for reporting it: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/173

**Features:**
* Unicode support epic: fix handling of request body and a whole raft of smaller fixes + more tests: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/104
* ALPHA: Python 3 support - all tests now pass!
* JMESPath extractor: a proper JSON query syntax to use in validation
- Thanks to marklz for his contribution (significant effort), tracked in https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/156
* JsonPath_Mini extractor supports ability to return the root response object now with the "." syntax -- thanks for the PR! https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/106
* Allow for smarter URL creation from fragments: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/118
* Reuse Curl handles in tests, which improves test performance with connection reuse and DNS caching:
- https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/160
* Add terminal output coloring for pass/pail (able to turn off via cmdline)
- Thanks to lerrua for his PRs https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/125 https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/141
* Switch from legacy distutils for install to setuptools:
- Thanks lerrua for the PR - https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/122

**Bugfixes:**
* Whole raft of bugfixes around Unicode handling and request/response bodies
* Fix bug in parsing of the curl_option argument - thanks to jcelliot for noticing this
- Noted in https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/138
* Fix HTTP PATCH method configuration - many thanks to lerrua for his PR!
- Noted in https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/117
- Fixed in https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/129
* Fix the HTTP DELETE use with a body, which could not be tested
- Thanks to spradeepv for the pull request: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/165
* Fix HTTP HEAD method configuration
- Thanks to ksramchandani for reporting issues that triggered an investigation (different root cause) in https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/117
* Fix Django testing breakage by locking to a functioning version
- e39d156b56962e86a0054ba11304eb37f8a3b46d and e731ebaee6f4926e7c42fb551af8ff4930a7127b

**Known Issues / Back-Compatibility:**
* Headers are returned from tests as unicode key, value pairs now

**Features:**
* BETA: Add a type testing comparator to assist with validating request/header bodies
- Issue: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/90 (derived from online feedback)
* BETA: Allow setting custom Curl options with the curl_option_optionname field on tests
* BETA: support HTTP method types besides GET/PUT/POST/DELETE
* BETA: support setting request body on all request types, if present
- Allows (for example) DELETE methods that set a request body
- Caveat: does not set length if 0
* raw_body extractor that returns the full HTTP response body
- Requested in: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/71
* Add test coverage script (uses 'coverage', which requires install)

**Bugfixes:**
* Fix bug with headers not being passed to extract_bind extrators, which caused:
- https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/70
- https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/63
* Extractors did not raise an exception on failure: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/64
* Fix issue with use of curl WRITEDATA opt on CentOS 6 / Python 2.6 (use writefunction instead)
* Fix/document installation issues with dependencies

**Known Issues / Back-Compatibility:**
* Minor: generator letters/uppercase/lowercase are now always ASCII, not locale-aware
- Driven by python 3 compatibility, and probably more "correct" but still a change
* Headers are now lists of (key, value) pairs, extractors need to be aware of this
- *Will only be an issue for people using custom header extractors*
- After some serious googling, as far as I can tell, nobody is using headers in custom extensions yet
- This can be patched into a back-compatibile approach if it breaks anyone

**Misc:**
* Automation start (Jenkins setup, initial testing Dockerfiles) including 2.6 and 2.7 compat
* Dockerfiles to create build/test environments
* run_tests.sh now exits on first failure, and returns exit code (for automation)
- In PR: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/82

**Features**
* Command line argument --verbose to set verbose mode for PyRestTest
- Thanks netjunki for your PR! https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/49
* A series of fixes to move towards Python3 support
- Many thanks to MorrisJobke for his assistances! https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/59
* Add delay parameter to tests:
- Thanks to netjunki for the PR! https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/51
* Added option to print headers while running test via --print-headers option
- Thanks to netjunki for the contribution: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/56
* Add support to give an *absolute* URL in tests and use the --absolute-url argument to ignore command-line URL
- Thanks to Kesmy for the PR! https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/53

**Bugfixes:**
* Fix the not_equals/ne comparator
- Thanks to Kesmy for the PR! https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/issues/54
* Fix vars not being passed correctly from command line
- Thanks to netjunki for the PR: https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest/pull/50

**Back-compatibility breaks**
* None

* Do not have good tracking this far back