[TIP] [nose] handling other types of testsuite

[Michael Foord]

On 20/01/2012 16:04, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 20/01/2012 15:54, jason pellerin wrote:
>>> ...so, I was wondering what your thoughts are in terms of dealing with
>>> TestSuite-ish objects that aren't generated by nose?
>>
>> In a few places if you return a bare list of tests instead of a suite,
>> you'll automagically get a ContextSuite wrapper, but I'm not sure if
>> the place you're returning tests is one of those places. If not, try
>> to return a nose ContextSuite if you can. :( A lot of plugin methods
>> are triggered in the suite -- many things just won't work at all with
>> other kinds of test suites.
>
> Yeah, that's my figuring. I guess I need to work up a SweetWrapper 
> (hur hur) that mediates between what a ContextSuite provides and what 
> the wrapped TestSuite provides...
>
>> Or port your plugin to nose2, which doesn't have a custom test suite
>> and is happier for it. :)
>
> Is that usable yet? I thought that was dependent on unittest2's plugin 
> support, which hadn't been implemented or released yet as far as I 
> know...

nose2 took the work I did and reshaped it - so it doesn't depend on 
unittest2 plugin support. At the moment it's basically a fork with the 
plugin engine bundled.

All the best,

Michael


>
> Chris
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