[Zope-dev] Functional testing of export/import?

[Casey Duncan]

You can usually commit a subtransaction to get a _p_jar and oid (I think)=
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You can still abort this at the end of the test to clean up.

hth,

-Casey

On Monday 28 July 2003 12:39 pm, Paul Winkler wrote:
> I'm trying to write a functional test that verifies that an instance
> of my Product works correctly after it's been exported and re-imported.
> I'm stuck on how to give the test object a valid _p_oid which is needed
> to do the export.
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> Background:
> This Product is a dynamic content object for CMF. Its behavior depends =
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> another CMF type instances, which it keeps a path to. So I need to ensu=
re
> that things work even when one or both objects have moved. I've got
> moving & renaming handled well and now I want to test import/export.
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> So my test suite sets up a dummy CMF instance. I do this by swiping=20
> stuff from the CMFCore and CMFDefault tests; I subclass SecurityRequest=
Test
> and then do
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>     manage_addCMFSite(self.root, 'cmf_test_site' )
>     self.site =3D self.root.cmf_test_site
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> I've also got a portal folder in the site which I keep a handy=20
> reference to as self.fol1.=20
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> All tests are passing, now I move on to writing the export / import tes=
ts.
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> Let's say the object I want to export is self.cmf_test_site.fol1.cp1.
> I have a shorthand reference to this stored as self.cp1.
> So I think the first thing I need to do is get the export data
> like this:
>     data self.fol1.manage_exportObject('cp1', download=3D1)
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> ... and once that works, I'll use the same data to do an import.
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> But the export fails. Using pdb and browsing some source I've learned=20
> that cp1 needs a _p_jar and _p_oid in order to be exported. =20
> The _p_jar I've already dealt with in my move / rename tests, by swipin=
g
> a hack from CMFCore/tests/test_portalFolder.py:
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>     id =3D self.cp1.getId()
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>     # WAAAA! must get _p_jar set
>     old, self.cp1._p_jar =3D self.cp1._p_jar, self.root._p_jar
>     try:
>         data =3D self.fol1.manage_exportObject(id, download=3D1)
>     finally:
>         self.cp1._p_jar =3D old
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> That seems to work fine.=20
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> But now I'm stuck on _p_oid. How do I give the object a valid one?
> I'm sure I can't just use the same trick and swipe the _p_oid of the ap=
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> root :-P
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> I must say that using pyunit to write functional tests for zope 2 / CMF=
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> is a royal pain. It requires too much knowledge of implementation.
> (why should i need to worry about _p_foo???)
> Also I've found that if there's an error in your class' setUp(),
> it can cause the test to hang and never show you a traceback.
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> Paul Winkler
> http://www.slinkp.com
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