Failing at Unit Testing

[j3b]

As an exercise, in order to try to better understand how to make good use of unit testing, I copied just the following code from the built-in evennia tests and put it into my own test module under the "commands" directory.

class TestAccount(CommandTest):

    """Emulate the built-in test"""

    def test_ooc(self):

        self.call(account.CmdOOC(), "", "You go OOC.", caller=self.account)

    def test_ic(self):

        self.account.db._playable_characters = [self.char1]

        self.account.unpuppet_object(self.session)

        self.call(

                 account.CmdIC(), "Obj", "You become Char.",

                 caller=self.account,

                 receiver=self.char1)

The first test "ooc" works but the second fails as follows.

AssertionError:

=================Wanted message=======================

You become Char.

 ================Returned message======================

======================================================

In game (using my own db) however both commands work as expected:

>ooc

You go OOC.

You are out-of-character (OOC).

Use ic to get back into the game.

>ic

You become Char.

All this is to say I feel stumped. If I can't even get built in tests to work as expected I an a long way from being able to test my custom commands.  I don't suppose this is a problem with the testing suite but a problem of my own understanding.  However I'm really not sure where to go from here.  Any advice, whether general or particular would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Zude Onim]

Is your test command part of a command set ?

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[Griatch Art]

@j3b

This looks like a typo. This is what you have:

self.call(

                 account.CmdIC(), "Obj", "You become Char.",

                 caller=self.account,

                 receiver=self.char1)

Note that you are trying to puppet "Obj", but the `receiver` is set to self.char1. It's the receiver which will mocked to receive the output message you are looking for ("You become X").

It's a little special for `ic` since the receiver changes from Account to Char mid-command. Usually the caller of the commandis the same one that should receive the output of it, so

`receiver` is not necessary to specify. But even so, you are trying to puppet Obj but is checking for a return string about you puppeting Char, soeven with the right receiver you'd get an error.

The original code is actually this:

self.call(

                 account.CmdIC(), "Char", "You become Char.",

                 caller=self.account,

                 receiver=self.char1)

which passes. For some reason you swapped "Char" for "Obj" when you copied it over into your code, which is why your version does not pass.

.

Griatch