Hi guys, Something I've been working on for a while has just been merged to trunk (with some help from mvo along the way - thanks).
I'm hoping it will be useful for you all at some point, so sharing it now. It is a 'fake' review API suite which pretends to be the server for all review functionality including the SSO login stuff. Basically, it provides a fake version of rnrclient, loginbackendSSO and ubuntuSSOapi. To use it, you can simply export SOFTWARE_CENTER_FAKE_REVIEW_API='1' to os.environ and the app should transparently use the fake API. What's the point? Basically, you can play with some settings to make the API act exactly as you need it to without any unexpected results which you might get if you are trying to use a real review server. It also avoids actually hitting a real review server (or network at all for that matter). e.g. if you are trying to test a change to submit review, you don't have to submit multiple real reviews to a real server and work around the real-life rules that are in place on the server. Some examples of what you can do: add a fake network delay, force an rnrclient method to raise an exception for testing error conditions or have it return a certain number of reviews, votes etc. To see each of the settings that are currently available, take a look at the file test/fake_review_settings.py. I've tried to document each setting in the comments as best I can. In the FakeReviewSettings class, each key/val pair in the _FAKE_SETTINGS dict is a setting you can change to alter the API's behaviour. To change the settings, import and instantiate FakeReviewSettings() then use update_setting() or update_multiple(). This writes the settings to a cache file and the app then retrieves them from the file when it needs them. If you don't want to be bound by the settings that were in the file from last time you used it, pass True to the FakeReviewSettings() __init__ and it will overwrite the cache file with the default values as a starting point. You can use this in test cases or in real UI interaction with the app. For the latter, you can use the run_with_fake_review_api.sh script to fire it up. If you get a chance, please give it a go and see if you can break it so we can make it better. Also, if you identify any new settings that it needs or things we can do to make it more useful, let me know and I'll add them in (or add them yourself if you like) Hope this helps! cheers Aaron _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
