testing controllers with enabled identity

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi all,

I'm trying to test my controllers with enabled identity-checking - so far to
no avail. I found this patch:

http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/attachment/ticket/1166/test_id.patch

but I didn't figure out a way to actually make my test_controllers.py working
with that.

Anybody here having success testing with identity support?

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[Max Ischenko]

Hi,

Have you tried to apply the patch and then call
testutil.set_identity_user() method?

What exactly the problem you run into?

Max,
patch author.

[felix....@web.de]

Hi Diez,

after some source code reading, I got this working. I guess your main
problem is that call() and call_with_request() use the method directly
but identity support is implemented via cherrypy's filter mechanism.
These filters (especially "before_main") are only run if you use the
"normal" way calling cherrypy. In these filters request.identity is
set. The easiest way I found so far was to call
apply_filters("before_main") manually just before call_with_request.

fs

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Thanks for your reply - it didn't work for me though, as so far I use

create_request

which actually _does_ run all the filtering stuff. And while there is the
test_user attached to the request, the identity is somehow removed and the
later VisitFilter will not find a suitable identity and thus redirect to the
login page.

Hrmpf. I'll see if I can get that working, but it's actually much more
(black...) magic than I'm currently interesting in tinkering with. I'm at my
first, maximum second Hogwarts year...

Diez

[Max Ischenko]

FWIW, the patch has been merged in TG 1.0 stable branch.

Now your identity tests should be as simple as
fred = User.get(...)
testutil.set_identity_user(fred)
#use call/call_with_request()

See
http://maxischenko.in.ua/blog/entries/112/turbogears-identity-testing-hooks/
Max,