python unittests + indexes

[alex]

I bumped into this while unittesting and then running my app with dev_appserver/production: unittests go fine but later I discover I don't have required indexes (I'm using "dev_appserver.py ... --require_indexes")

So, I figured I'd do something like this in my setUp():

def setUp(self):

    ...

    self.testbed = testbed.Testbed()

    self.testbed.activate()

    self.testbed.init_datastore_v3_stub(require_indexes=True)

    dev_appserver_index.SetupIndexes(None, "%s/../" % os.path.dirname(__file__))

I'm setting up datastore stub with require_indexes=True and later:

dev_appserver_index.SetupIndexes(None, "%s/../" % os.path.dirname(__file__))

- None tells it to use default app_id (whatever it is set to in app.yaml)

- second arg is the path to app root (I have my tests in app_root/tests dir)

Just posting this in case someone else finds it useful.