[Twisted-Python] How to write (network) integration tests with Twisted?
Phil Christensen
phil at bubblehouse.org
Mon Jan 26 10:25:15 EST 2009
On Jan 26, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Alessio Pace wrote:
> The point is that I must assure multiple test classes have their
> test methods run within an active reactor. So somewhere a
> reactor.run() has to be called.. Necessarily, if I want that my
> tests battery to terminate, a reactor.stop() must be invoked by
> somebody, otherwise the main loop remains running...
>
> The trivial -and not working- idea was to do reactor.run() /
> reactor.stop() in setUp() / tearDown() methods.
Trial takes care of starting and stopping the reactor for you. Just
write your tests assuming the reactor is already running. I believe it
will restart the reactor between every test, so you're always dealing
with a 'fresh' reactor.
You can also select which reactor to use inside Trial with the --
reactor parameter (call `trial --help-reactors` for more). That's
usually not necessary unless you have a special case that requires a
particular reactor.
-phil
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