[TIP] Coming changes to unittest2 plugins

[Michael Foord]

  On 27/09/2010 17:51, Eric Smith wrote:
> [Apologies if you see this (or variations on it) more than once, I'm
> having connectivity issues and I'm not sure what's been sent]
>
>> On 03:57 pm, olemis at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Michael Foord
>>> <michael at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>>>>   On 27/09/2010 16:36, holger krekel wrote:
>>>>> Hi Tarek, Michael,
>>> :o)
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:47 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Michael
>>>>>> Foord<michael at voidspace.org.uk>
>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>> package.module:Class
>>>>> The advantage of this notation is that it's explicit and clear what
>>>>> is the module part and what is the object ...
>>>> Isn't the last part always the object? Or am I missing something...
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>> Migh not always be so
>>>
>>> {{{
>>> #!
>>>
>>> class MyClass
>>>   def method1
>>>      pass
>>>   class InnerClass
>>>     def method2
>>>        pass
>>> }}}
>>>
>>> In this case AFAICR
>>>
>>> mypkg.mymdl:MyClass
>>> mypkg.mymdl:MyClass.method1
>>> mypkg.mymdl:MyClass.InnerClass
>>> mypkg.mymdl:MyClass.InnerClass.method2
>>>
>>> CMIIW
>>>
>>> PS: IMO both sides have some good reasons to choose any alternative
>>> (uniformity vs explicitness ...)
>> But this difference doesn't matter.  If someone wants to specify a
>> method of an inner class to be used as a plugin - great!  As far as I
>> can tell, unittest2 doesn't care.  The : doesn't add anything.
> It's not exactly the same, but I'm using setuptools scripts which have
> entry points defined as "a.b.c:d.e". "a.b.c" is a module, "d" is a class,
> "e" is a classmethod.
>
> The code generated by zc.recipe.egg looks like:
> import a.b.c
> a.b.c.d.e()
>
> If you don't know where the module name stops, I don't see how you'd
> generate this code.

Well, you call a function that finds it instead:

e = getObjectFromName('a.b.c.d.e')
e()

Which is exactly how unittest2 will do it. (Using 
'unittest2.util.getObjectFromName'.)

All the best,

Michael

> Again, this might not be the same case as with unittest2 plugins, but I
> don't see how you can get rid of colons in the general case in d2.
>
> Eric.
>
>
>
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