At 12:26 PM 2/22/2006 +0200, Iwan Vosloo wrote: >Hi there, > >I'm trying to write tests for an egg which expects certain entry >points to be supplied for an entry point group it is interested in. > >What is the easiest way (in testing code) to make a new entry point in >some group in a test setup, and nuke it again in the test tearDown?
Well, there isn't a particularly easy way right now. You have to create a Distribution with a dummy metadata containing entry_points.txt, or else you have to subclass Distribution to create a mock that returns what you want from the entry point methods. You then have to add that Distribution to a WorkingSet instance, and you need to make your code use that WorkingSet instead of the default working_set. One way you can do this is by having some of your methods or functions take an argument that defaults to the global working_set, but can be overridden by the test code. If you want to take the dummy metadata route, see the setuptools test modules, as they have a mock metadata class that you can give the text of what metadata files the distribution will seem to have. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
