[Twisted-Python] trial and setUpClass

[Manlio Perillo]

Jonathan Lange ha scritto:
> On 5/18/06, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
>> Jonathan Lange ha scritto:
>> > [...]
>> >> Another question: there is a supported way to execute code before
>> *all*
>> >> TestCases run?

> [...]

> In that case, here's what I'd do.  I'd create a couple of top-level
> functions (maybe methods in a TestCase subclass -- who knows?), like
> this:
> 

Ok, I already use a common subclass.

> def checkDB():
>    # check the database is configured properly.
>    # return False if it needs to be restored
> 
> def setUpDB():
>    if not checkDB():
>        # drop & create a bunch of tables
> 
> I'd then whack a call to setUpDB() in my setUp (_not_ setUpClass) for
> every test case that needed to use the database.  That way, I'd know
> that the data was always correct, and I wouldn't be reconfiguring the
> database for every single test.
> 

Thanks, good idea.

For now, however, I simply use os.system and os.popen with psgl.



Regards  Manlio Perillo