On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 09:16 +0000, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Tim Knapp, on 2009-03-26: > > 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. > > A few years ago at Zest Software we needed a patch (for Archetypes I > think) and hit the same problem that our product was too late in the > startup process to have enough influence. So we put the patch in a > product called (Products.)AAAPatch; affectionately called triple A > patch. :-) Due to the three A-s at the beginning it was virtually > guaranteed to be the first product to load.
Awesome, I'll give it a go and report back. Thanks, 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 )
