[Twisted-Python] Re: [Twisted-commits] aaaaargh. the makeidentity test was FAILING, and we never noticed, cause Deferred catches exceptions in errback (this fixes failure, not the Deferred issue)

Andrew Bennetts andrew-twisted at puzzling.org
Wed May 15 19:39:10 EDT 2002


On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:08:41PM -0500, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> 
> From: Christopher Armstrong <carmstro at twistedmatrix.com>
> Date: 15 May 2002 13:10:00 -0400
> 
> > So, we need two things for tests:
> >  1) a single reactor that all tests are run in
> >  2) an errback that we can attach to deferreds to make PyUnit show the
> >     error (no idea how to do this one)
> 
> I think that we need a test harness other than PyUnit for running the tests,
> really -- both to make it easier to run only one specific test, and to support
> event-based tests or ones which can time out.

The timeout problem would be less of an issue if Deferreds had that .timeout
method I proposed a while back...

...I guess I should stop whining and just implement it, huh? :)

-Andrew.





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