[Twisted-Python] Automatic test for Twisted
Reza Lotun
rlotun at gmail.com
Fri May 29 08:04:12 EDT 2009
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:01 AM, David Ripton <dripton at ripton.net> wrote:
> Another option is nose. Google for "nose.twistedtools"
I've used nose for twisted unittests - and it usually works fine for
my purposes.
Just to expand a bit on how *I've* used it:
from nose.twistedtools import deferred
from twisted.internet import defer
@deferred()
@defer.inlineCallbacks
def test_something():
res = yield func_that_returns_deferred()
assert res == 'something'
etc.
It's generally quite readable, and integrates nicely with non-twisted
unittests - I like the way that you can just write 'asserts'. However,
there are some caveats - namely that twisted is actually started in
another thread. So, if you plan to run a server to test calls against
(say in your setup_module) you need to make a wrapper around any
connection maker to use reactor.callFromThread.
Hope that's useful,
Reza
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