[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

[Michael Foord]

On 13/02/2010 11:00, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 10:42 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>    
>> Robert Collins<robertc<at>  robertcollins.net>  writes:
>>      
>>> I'm not personally very keen on inspecting everything in self.__dict__,
>>> I suspect it would tickle bugs in other unittest extensions. However I'm
>>> not really /against/ it - I don't think it will result in bad test
>>> behaviour or isolation issues. So if users would like it, lets do it.
>>>        
>> Why not take all resource_XXX attributes?
>>      
> Sure, though if we're just introspecting I don't see much risk
> difference between resource_XXX and all XXX. As I say above I'm happy to
> do it if folk think it will be nice.
>    

We could introspect all class attributes and find all the resources. We 
should use dir(...) rather than looking in the class __dict__ so that 
resources can be inherited.

However, it sounds like Guido isn't a fan of Test Resources *instead* of 
setUpClass / module because it doesn't offer a simple solution for the 
setUpModule use case and the API still needs to mature.

All the best,

Michael

>    
>> By the way, how does a given test access the allocated resource? Say, the DB
>> connection. Does it become an attribute of the test case instance?
>>      
> yes. Given
>
> class Foo(TestCase):
>      resources = {'thing', MyResourceManager()}
>      def test_foo(self):
>          self.thing
>
> self.thing will access the resource returned by MyResourceManager.make()
>
> -Rob
>    
>
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