Testing Write Operations

[averagehat]

test_samples.py shows how one can test read operations for this project. What would be a realistic way to test write operations (i.e. the right issues got created, the correct relations got created). I don't see a way to mock out the write operations.

I could create a test site that gets generated when we test.

[necrolyte2]

python-redmine is built of of the request library so you just intercept the calls to post, put, delete

You can see how it is done at
https://github.com/VDBWRAIR/redsample/blob/master/redsample/test/test_samples.py#L68

self.patcher_get = mock.patch('requests.get', return_value=self.response)
self.mock_get = self.patcher_get.start()

Then self.mock_get is the request.get function mocked out and will intercept all get requests for you. Post, delete and put are also already in the setUp() function, but don't have a variable assigned to them.

[averagehat]

Yes, I saw that. That's not quite I mean though.

For example, if I wanted to test make_issue_block_sample, I would want to be able to see that the relation was created afterwards.

[necrolyte2]

You have to do something similar to this
https://github.com/maxtepkeev/python-redmine/blob/master/tests/test_resources.py#L825