[Distutils] Testing with stubbed entry points?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:26 PM 2/22/2006 +0200, Iwan Vosloo wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I'm trying to write tests for an egg which expects certain entry
>points to be supplied for an entry point group it is interested in.
>
>What is the easiest way (in testing code) to make a new entry point in
>some group in a test setup, and nuke it again in the test tearDown?

Well, there isn't a particularly easy way right now.  You have to create a 
Distribution with a dummy metadata containing entry_points.txt, or else you 
have to subclass Distribution to create a mock that returns what you want 
from the entry point methods.  You then have to add that Distribution to a 
WorkingSet instance, and you need to make your code use that WorkingSet 
instead of the default working_set.  One way you can do this is by having 
some of your methods or functions take an argument that defaults to the 
global working_set, but can be overridden by the test code.

If you want to take the dummy metadata route, see the setuptools test 
modules, as they have a mock metadata class that you can give the text of 
what metadata files the distribution will seem to have.