test(testing.Client.json): Check for generic Exception to support ujson

falcon/testing/client.py

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class Result(object):
             under Python 2.6 and 2.7, and of type ``str`` otherwise.
             If the content type does not specify an encoding, UTF-8 is
             assumed.
-        json (dict): Deserialized JSON body. Raises ``JSONDecodeError`` if
+        json (dict): Deserialized JSON body. Raises an error if
             the body is empty or not JSON.
     """
 

tests/test_utils.py

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 
 from datetime import datetime
 import functools
-try:
-    from json.decoder import JSONDecodeError
-except ImportError:
-    JSONDecodeError = ValueError
 import random
 
 import pytest
@@ -456,7 +452,7 @@ class TestFalconTestingUtils(object):
     def test_wsgi_iterable_not_closeable(self):
         result = testing.Result([], falcon.HTTP_200, [])
         assert not result.content
-        with pytest.raises(JSONDecodeError):
+        with pytest.raises(Exception):
             result.json
 
     def test_path_must_start_with_slash(self):