[tor-dev] Stem Testing Mocking Issue

Erik I Islo eislo at wesleyan.edu
Thu Jun 14 20:44:53 UTC 2012


The changes look great! I see no issues with merging to the master branch.
Sorry about the reStructuredText inconvenience. I actually didn't even
think of it -- I just meant to clean up the comments a bit, but I'll
definitely be more careful in the future.

- Erik & Megan

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>wrote:

> > We also updated your adaptation to our patch so that no code is repeated.
> > This should make the function cleaner and more readable.  This new code
> can
> > be found at:
> > https://github.com/jacthinman/Tor-Stem/blob/mocking/test/mocking.py
>
> Ah ha, makes much more sense now - thanks. After some reflection I
> realized that the mocking code was more convoluted that it needs to
> be. What do you think of this change instead?
>
>
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/atagar/stem.git/commitdiff/eb51eab0badf6b64d6119312478098686553f605
>
> It seems to handle both of our use cases while also axing much of the
> special handling for builtins...
>
> >>> import test.mocking
> >>> import time
> >>> my_mock = lambda i: i
> >>> test.mocking.mock(time.time, my_mock)
> >>> time.time(5)
> 5
> >>> test.mocking.revert_mocking()
> >>> time.time()
> 1339689308.64306
>
> >>> test.mocking.mock(open, my_mock)
> >>> open(5)
> 5
> >>> test.mocking.revert_mocking()
> >>> open("/some_file", "r")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/some_file'
>
> If it looks good to you then I'll go ahead and merge this with master.
> Cheers! -Damian
>
> PS. Thanks for converting the mocking module to reStrcutredText.
> Usually that would have been a welcome improvement, however in this
> case I'd already converted it in the master branch so that actually
> generated merge conflicts with your patch. It's helpful if there's
> separate commits for separate changes (ie, a commit for the mocking
> changes and another for the reStructuredText conversion). That said, I
> don't always follow this rule either. ;)
>
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