Nice, Ian.
I'm overworking these days. I'll touch this next week.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ian W. Scott <scotti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After a bit of hacking I put together a working test runner for pytest. Here
> it is:
>
> """
> Run this app's tests via py.test
>
> place this file in applications/<appname>/bin/
>
> run with: python <your web2py dir>/web2py.py -S paideia -M -R
> applications/<appname>/bin/runtest.py
> """
> import os
> import sys
> import pytest
>
> def run_pytest(w2p_dir, test_dir, app_name):
> if os.name == 'nt':
> errlist = (WindowsError,ValueError,SystemExit)
> else:
> errlist = (OSError,ValueError,SystemExit)
>
> try:
> test_dir = os.path.join(w2p_dir, 'applications', app_name, test_dir)
> if test_dir not in sys.path:
> sys.path.append(test_dir) # to support imports from current
> folder in the testfiles
> # modules are applications/[app_name]/modules
> modules_path = os.path.join('applications', app_name, 'modules')
> if modules_path not in sys.path:
> sys.path.append(modules_path) # to support imports from
> modules folder
> if 'site-packages' not in sys.path:
> sys.path.append('site-packages') # support imports from
> web2py/site-packages
> pytest.main([test_dir]) # run pytest programmatically
>
> except Exception, e:
> print type(e), e
>
> if __name__=='__main__':
> run_pytest(<your web2py directory>, <your test folder>, <your appname>)
>
> I'll post a slice to w2py slices with this code as well and post the file in
> a github repo. I'm not a brilliant programmer, so I'm sure others might have
> improvements to suggest (esp. since right now you have to configure things
> in the test runner file itself). But it's a working start.
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 3:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>>
>> [edit: sorry, I forgot the runtest.py attachment before.]
>>
>> I'm trying to use pytest (instead of unittest) to do unit testing for a
>> web2py app. I've written a script (attached: runtest.py) to launch py.test,
>> which then finds and executes my test files. I run this launcher script in a
>> web2py environment like this:
>>
>> python ~/web/web2py/web2py.py -S paideia -M -R
>> applications/paideia/bin/runtest.py
>>
>> The problem is that when I try to import gluon or any of my app's custom
>> modules (where the classes under test live) I get an import error.
>>
>> This is particularly strange since my runtest.py explicitly adds the app
>> modules folder to sys.path (this is mostly cribbed from the testrunner.py on
>> web2py slices). But my grasp of the w2p environment and running subprocesses
>> is weak at best. (Case in point, testrunner.py passes globals() to the test
>> files using execfile(testfile, globals()) but I haven't figured out yet how
>> to get pytest to pick up those globals, since it doesn't allow me to execute
>> the test files directly.)
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated. If we can get this working I think it would
>> be a help, since some of pytest's functions (e.g., parameterized fixtures
>> and automatic fixture clean-up) are pretty powerful.
>>
> --
>
>
>
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