How to mock nested methods/attributes

[Jason Dunsmore]

Hi,

I'm trying to mock a call to git.Repo(path).remotes.origin.pull().  Here's one of my many attempts:

        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(git, 'Repo')

        repo = git.Repo(IgnoreArg())

        repo_remotes = self.mox.CreateMockAnything()

        repo_remotes_origin = self.mox.CreateMockAnything()

        repo.remotes.AndReturn(repo_remotes)

        repo_remotes.origin.AndReturn(repo_remotes_origin)

        repo_remotes_origin.pull().AndReturn(True)

        self.mox.ReplayAll()

The error I see is:

"AttributeError: MockMethod has no attribute "remotes". Did you remember to put your mocks in replay mode?"

Can anybody provide some guidance?  I'm new to object mocking frameworks.

Thanks,

Jason

[Jason D]

FYI, it seems like the following will work:

        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(git, 'Repo')

        mock_repo = self.mox.CreateMockAnything()

        git.Repo(IgnoreArg()).AndReturn(mock_repo)

        repo_remotes = self.mox.CreateMockAnything()

        repo_remotes_origin = self.mox.CreateMockAnything()

        setattr(mock_repo, "remotes", repo_remotes)

        setattr(repo_remotes, "origin", repo_remotes_origin)

        repo_remotes_origin.pull()

        self.mox.ReplayAll()

[Jason D]

Apparently, this isn't quite right.  When mox.VerifyAll() is called, I get the following error:

ExpectedMethodCallsError: Verify: Expected methods never called:

  0.  Repo.__call__(<IgnoreArg>) -> <MockAnything instance>

Any ideas?