A mocking framework for Python
Project description
Funk is a mocking framework for Python, influenced heavily by JMock. Funk helps to test modules in isolation by allowing mock objects to be used in place of “real” objects. Funk is licensed under the 2-clause BSD licence.
Installation
$ pip install funk
Example
Let’s say we have a TagRepository class, which has a fetch_all method on it. This method will fetch all instances of Tag from the database for us.
We also have a class that we’d like to test, called TagDisplayer. Its constructor takes a TagRepository, and has a method display_all. We want to test that this method will grab all of the tags from the repository, sort them into alphabetical order, and write their names into a string separated by new lines.
from nose.tools import assert_equals
import funk
from funk import expects
@funk.with_mocks
def test_writes_all_tag_names_onto_separate_lines(mocks):
tag_repository = mocks.mock(TagRepository)
expects(tag_repository).fetch_all(sorted=False)
.returns([Tag('python'), Tag('debian')])
tag_displayer = TagDisplayer(tag_repository)
assert_equals(tag_displayer.display_all(), 'python\ndebian')
By using a mock object instead of a real instance of TagRepository, we avoid relying on a correct implementation of TagRepository. We can also run the test without a running database.
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