Skipping decorators in unit tests
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Thu Oct 10 18:12:38 EDT 2013
On 10Oct2013 07:00, Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
> (explaining the title) : my app has functions and methods (and
> maybe classes in the future) that are decorated by decorators
> provided by the standard library or 3rd party packages.
>
> But I need to test "undecorated" functions and methods in my unit tests, preferably without adding "special stuffs" in my target tested modules.
>
> Can someone point out good practices or dedicated tools that "remove temporarily" the decorations.
> I pasted a small example of what I heed at http://pastebin.com/20CmHQ7Y
Speaking for myself, I would be include to recast this code:
@absolutize
def addition(a, b):
return a + b
into:
def _addition(a, b):
return a + b
addition = absolutize(_addition)
Then you can unit test both _addition() and addition().
And so forth.
Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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