On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:55 AM Jan Richter <jaric...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > some time ago was added the ability for avocado.skip decorators to be used > on classes. This decorator just loop over all the methods of the class and > marks them as skip > https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/3570 > However, this implementation comes a question if this is enough, so I > created this issue. > https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/3579 > Because when we want to skip some class, there shouldn't be any code > executed at all, no initialization, nothing. I spent some time on that, and > I didn't find an efficient way how to do that. So I would like to start a > discussion about how it can be done. > > The problem is that is difficult to use classic python decorators on that > because they are called with initialization of test class, but at that time > the Loader already loads this test class, and we want to skip that too. > One possible way is to use some tag for skipping, which can be parsed from > the test file. But there is a lot of problems with parsing, like how we > deal with skipIf. Another solution is to use decorators and skip the > initialization of test class and then delete it from the Loader. But I > think that in practice it will have the same effect as looping over all the > methods of the test class. > Can we avoid loading the class that has the decorator? We are using inspect already... https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/blob/master/avocado/core/loader.py#L289-L294 > > Now I am stuck in the dead-end with this problem, so any comments or > suggestion will help me a lot. > > Best regards, > > -- > > Jan Richter > > Intern > > Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> > > <https://www.redhat.com/> >
