unit testing properties

[bernie]

Hi Mark,

Since Foo.bar is not a callable.  I think you should use assert,
self.assert_(), self.failIf(), self.failIf(), self.failUnless() ...
(there are more self.assertXXX() and self.failXXX(), see doc)
to do the assertion test.

Bernie


Mark McEahern wrote:

> I'm trying to unit test the setter for a property:
>
> class Foo(object):
>
>         def getBar(self):
>                 return "bar"
>
>         bar = property(getBar, None, None, "Bar.")
>
> Notice that there is no setter (second arg to property is None).  This code
> should raise AttributeError:
>
>         f = Foo()
>         f.bar = "somethin' innarestin"
>
> However, suppose I wanted to unit test this:
>
>         import unittest
>
>         class testFoo(unittest.TestCase):
>                 def testSetter(self):
>                         f = Foo()
>                         self.assertRaises(AttributeError, f.bar...
>
> That's where I get stopped.  The second param to assertRaises is supposed to
> be a callable object--but I want to test a setter.  Hmm, any ideas?  Here
> are mine:
>
> 1.  Why am I testing property(whatever, None)--that's like testing whether
> addition works.  I'm not really doing anything beyond what Python's supposed
> to do, so why do I think I need to test Python and not my specific stuff.
>
> 2.  If I'm perverse enough to want to test this, wrap the call to f.bar =
> "whatever" in a function and pass THAT to assertRaises--fer instance, I
> suppose I could use a lambda.
>
> Cheers,
>
> // mark