[TIP] pytest: mocking module imports

[Vinicius Kwiecien Ruoso]

Hi!

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, this does not work for me.
libB is not importable during the test, and at some point the test try
to import it.

Let me show a real minimal example:
├── src
│   └── mylib
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── liba.py
└── test
    └── mylib
        ├── conftest.py
        └── test_liba.py

8<---------
<liba.py>
from mylibB.libb import ClassB

class ClassA(ClassB):
    pass

<conftest.py>
import os
import sys

_src_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..', 'src')
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(_src_path))

<test_liba.py>
from mock import patch

@patch('mylibB.libb.ClassB')
def test_classa_instance(mock_classB):
    print mock_classB
8<---------

This fails with: "ImportError: No module named mylibB" while executing
the patch code.

My real intent on the test_liba.py file was (and for that to work, I
need to mock libb module import at the conftest.py file):

import mylib.liba

def test_classa_instance(mock_classB):
    print mylib.liba.ClassA()


Attached you may find this file structure if you want to run it.

Just as a note, I'm using Python 2.6 right now. I intend to support
Python 2.7, but not 3.x at this time.

Thanks again!
Vinicius

2015-04-17 14:47 GMT-03:00 Zhi An Ng <ngzhian at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I believe you can mock out ClassY as such:
>
> @patch('liB.ClassY')
> def test_unit_test(self):
>     stuff
>
>
> More info:
> https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/unittest.mock.html#quick-guide
>
> Best,
> Zhi An
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Vinicius Kwiecien Ruoso
> <vinicius.ruoso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've been using pytest and it is great. There is just one thing that
>> I'm not satisfied with the way I've implemented, that is module level
>> moking.
>>
>> My scenario is as follows: libA and libB where libA depends on libB
>> (uses class definition as superclass). Let's assume this code:
>>
>> <libA.py>
>> from libB import ClassY
>>
>> class ClassX(ClassY):
>>    pass
>>
>> <libB.py>
>> class ClassY(object):
>>    pass
>>
>> Those modules live on different packages/repositories. LibB can be
>> unit tested just fine, but we need to mock libB module to allow libA
>> to be unit tested (libB won't be available in the moment of the test).
>>
>> In a conftest.py file in the tests directory of libA, I've managed to
>> mock the module import by mocking sys.modules dictionary, but I did
>> this at the module (global) scope. I was not able to do it with any
>> hook (like pytest_configure), because the tests files are imported
>> before the hook is called. So a test_libA.py file with "import libA"
>> would cause the test to fail.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or is this really the way to go?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Vinicius
>>
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