[Zope] Re: ZopeTestCase.Functional and sessions?

[Stefan H. Holek]

Well, yes. As you have already discovered, publish() creates it's own  
REQUEST (also see ZPublisher.Test). All you have after a call to  
publish() is the response object. Note that you *can* check ZODB- 
based variables after publish(). However the REQUEST is not stored in  
the ZODB...

Which begs the question why you need publish() in the first place. It  
is only useful if you want to test the Publisher, i.e. the status  
code, or some returned headers and cookies. Everything else can be  
tested directly. How to put a session object into self.app.REQUEST is  
demonstrated in the testShoppingCart.py example test.

Stefan


On 21. Nov 2005, at 03:46, Paul Winkler wrote:

> Yes, everything is fine unless you attempt to access the session
> from the test code. So I can't see any way to e.g. assert that after
> publishing a page, a certain variable is set in the session.
> For example, I wish I could rewrite your test like so:
>
>     def testUseSessions(self):
>         response = self.publish(self.folder_path+'/use_session')
>         self.assertEqual(response.getStatus(), 200)
>         self.assertEqual(self.app.REQUEST.SESSION.get('foo', 'xxx'),
>                          'bar')
>

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