[py-dev] setup_directory / xUnit extension? Re: migration from 1.3 to 2.0

[holger krekel]

Hey again,

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 07:43 +0000, holger krekel wrote:
> > > good line of reasoning.  It's mostly my intuition making me hesitant
> > > to add setup_package like you suggest.  And i wonder what it is about :)
> > > Maybe it's that the root namespace of a test directory is often called
> > > "testing" or "tests"  (the "test" one is taken by Python stdlib already).
> > > And therefore you would end up having to do "import testing" and
> > > then use global state with something like "testing.STATE".
> > > But i guess this doesn't look so bad to you, does it? :)
> > > (The plugin/conftest system is designed such that it hardly
> > > requires any imports to manage test state.)
> > >
> > > Any more opinions on setup_package(package)? If others find it useful
> > > as well, i will consider introducing it with pytest-2.1.
> > 
> > I guess I will have to withdraw the idea. Having to explicitly import
> > the test package does not look nice at all.
> > conftest.py rules!
> > 
> > As to the two alternatives above I'd rather use
> > pytest_setup_testloop(config) with direct access to config.
> 
> I am now pondering following your original intention and introduce a
> "setup_directory" to be put into conftest.py files.  You could then
> access the config object via pytest.config. Would that make sense
> to you as well?

To elaborate a wee bit:

* setup_directory would be guranteed to be called for any test
  (both python, doctest or other test) within the directory hierarchy
  of the conftest.py dir and before any setup_module/class etc. is called.

* teardown_directory would be guranteed to be called when a test
  is run that is not in the directory hierarchy.

* if neccessary one can have setup_directory push test related 
  state to some global module (from which tests could import for example)

i am not yet sure about the idea but i guess it would be somewhat natural
and complete the setup_*/teardown_* xUnit style fixture methods.

holger

  
> best,
> holger
> 
> > Regards,
> > Vyacheslav
> > 
> > >
> > > best,
> > > holger
> > >
> > 
>