On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 21:20 +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote: > Tim Knapp wrote at 2009-3-23 18:21 +1300: > >I would like to override the DateTime.DateTime class within my > >functional tests. I have tried mocking (via mocker) and injecting the > >subclassed DateTime class into sys.modules (results in a > >TraversalError). The fartherest I've gotten is to set DateTime.DateTime > >= MySubclassedDateTime in my tests.py, which does work for the code > >'within' the package(s) I'm testing but all the Zope core code (i.e. the > >instance created within PloneTestCase) is still referencing the global > >DateTime module. Has anyone successfully done this? > > "import DateTime; DateTime=<myDateTimeClass>" should be able > to replace the "DateTime" class -- sometimes. > > > Be aware, however, that this replacing takes effect only after > your assignment. Modules that already have imported the "DateTime" > class will not be affected.
Thanks, yeah that was what I thought. I tried to do it in the _setup method of PloneTestCase, which theoretically gets called before the instance is runup but maybe not. Didn't seem to affect the Zope instance itself anyway. -Tim > > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
