import-volkswagen 0.1.1

Detect if running in a testing environment and control if methods act (either no-op in a test, or only act in a test)

VW

This module provides decorators that turn on or off the decorated method depending on whether it is running in a testing environment or not.

NOTE: The name vw was chosen for convenience and is not intended as commentary on any political topic real or imagined.

Why?

Have you ever found yourself wanting an easy way to turn off the logging when running in tests?

What about database access?

Mocking works well for your own code, but what about when a user imports your library?

This is what this tool is meant to solve.

Controlling

By using python-decouple, the following variables can be set in a settings.ini file, or a .env file, or as variables in the environment.

• VW_IGNORE -> causes VW to ignore if it is in a test environment (no_op still acts, and tests_only will not)
• VW_ALWAYS -> (NOTE: VW_IGNORE takes precedence over this var) causes VW to behave like it is always in a test environment (no_op is always a no-op)

Examples

1. Using an in-memory db for tests:

   import sqlite3
   
   import vw
   
   _con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:" if vw.is_test_env() else "database.sqlite3")
   

2. Logging to a local file for tests

   import logging
   
   import vw
   
   _root_logger = logging.getLogger(None)
   _root_logger.addHandler(logging.FileHandler("test.log" if vw.is_test_env() else "//path/to/server/log.txt"))
   

3. Avoid doing things in unit/component/integration tests that should only be done in production

   import requests
   import vw
   
   @vw.no_op
   def send_tornado_warning():
       requests.post(...)