[TIP] Which mock object framework should I use?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hello Tarjei,

> Since you are working on a new Mock implementation, my wishlist is
> that you look at the api that is used by the simpletest package
> (simpletest.org) for mocking.

Will check it out, thanks for the pointer.

> What I like about the simpletest api is that it doesn't require too
> much typing.

I believe Mocker is quite friendly in that regard.

> Instead of : (example from pmock)

Btw, I started Mocker after Graham Carlyle (pmock's author) told me
he had dropped pmock when I offered him a patch.

> obj.expects(mock.once()).some_method(mock.eq('myparam'),mock.eq('otherparam')).will(mock.return_value('tt'))
> you can have:
> obj.expectOnce('some_method', ('myparam','otherparam'), 'tt')

That's how Mocker would handle it:

  expect(obj.some_method('my param', 'otherparam')).result('tt')

Or:

  obj.some_method('my param', 'otherparam')
  mocker.result('tt')

Both are equivalent.

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