A plugin to fake subprocess for pytest
Project description
pytest-subprocess
A plugin to fake subprocess for pytest
Installation
You can install “pytest-subprocess” via pip from PyPI:
$ pip install pytest-subprocess
Usage
After plugin installation, the fake_subprocess fixture will become available. Use it to register subprocess results so you won’t need to rely on the real processes. The plugin hooks on the subprocess.Popen(), which is the base for other subprocess functions. That makes the subproces.run(), subprocess.call(), subprocess.check_call() and subprocess.check_output() methods also functional.
Basic usage
The most important method is fake_process.register_subprocess() which allows defining the fake processes behavior.
def test_git(fake_process):
fake_process.register_subprocess(
["git", "branch"], stdout=["* fake_branch", " master"]
)
process = subprocess.Popen(
["git", "branch"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True
)
out, _ = process.communicate()
assert process.returncode == 0
assert out == "* fake_branch\n master\n"
Passing input
By default, if you use input argument to the Popen.communicate() method, it won’t crash, but also won’t do anything useful. By passing a function as stdin_callable argument for the fake_process.register_subprocess() method you can specify the behavior based on the input. The function shall accept one argument, which will be the input data. If the function will return a dictionary with stdout or stderr keys, its value will be appended to according stream.
def test_stdin(fake_process):
def stdin_function(input):
return {
"stdout": "This input was added: {data}".format(
data=input.decode()
)
}
fake_process.register_subprocess(
["command"],
stdout=[b"Just stdout"],
stdin_callable=stdin_function,
)
process = subprocess.Popen(
["command"], stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
)
out, _ = process.communicate(input=b"sample input")
assert out.splitlines() == [
b"Just stdout",
b"This input was added: sample input",
]
Unregistered commands
By default, when the fake_process fixture is being used, any attempt to run subprocess that has not been registered will raise the ProcessNotRegisteredError exception. To allow it, use fake_process.allow_unregistered(True), which will execute all unregistered processes with real subprocess, or use fake_process.pass_command("command") to allow just a single command.
def test_real_process(fake_process):
with pytest.raises(pytest_subprocess.ProcessNotRegisteredError):
# this will fail, as "ls" command is not registered
subprocess.call("ls")
fake_process.pass_command("ls")
# now it should be fine
assert subprocess.call("ls") == 0
# allow all commands to be called by real subprocess
fake_process.allow_unregistered(True)
assert subprocess.call(["ls", "-l"]) == 0
Differing results
Each register_subprocess() or pass_command() method call will register only one command execution. You can call those methods multiple times, to change the faked output on each subprocess run. When you call subprocess more times than registered command, the ProcessNotRegisteredError will be raised. To prevent that, call fake_process.keep_last_process(True), which will keep the last registered process forever.
def test_different_output(fake_process):
# register process with output changing each execution
fake_process.register_subprocess("test", stdout="first execution")
# the second execution will return non-zero exit code
fake_process.register_subprocess(
"test", stdout="second execution", returncode=1
)
assert subprocess.check_output("test") == b"first execution\n"
second_process = subprocess.run("test", stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
assert second_process.stdout == b"second execution\n"
assert second_process.returncode == 1
# 3rd time shall raise an exception
with pytest.raises(pytest_subprocess.ProcessNotRegisteredError):
subprocess.check_call("test")
# now, register two processes once again, but the last one will be kept forever
fake_process.register_subprocess("test", stdout="first execution")
fake_process.register_subprocess("test", stdout="second execution")
fake_process.keep_last_process(True)
# now the processes can be called forever
assert subprocess.check_output("test") == b"first execution\n"
assert subprocess.check_output("test") == b"second execution\n"
assert subprocess.check_output("test") == b"second execution\n"
assert subprocess.check_output("test") == b"second execution\n"
As a context manager
The fake_process fixture provides context() method that allows us to use it as a context manager. It can be used to limit the scope when a certain command is allowed, e.g. to make sure that the code doesn’t want to execute it somewhere else.
def test_context_manager(fake_process):
with pytest.raises(pytest_subprocess.ProcessNotRegisteredError):
# command not registered, so will raise an exception
subprocess.check_call("test")
with fake_process.context() as nested_process:
nested_process.register_subprocess("test", occurrences=3)
# now, we can call the command 3 times without error
assert subprocess.check_call("test") == 0
assert subprocess.check_call("test") == 0
# the command was called 2 times, so one occurrence left, but since the
# context manager has been left, it is not registered anymore
with pytest.raises(pytest_subprocess.ProcessNotRegisteredError):
subprocess.check_call("test")
Documentation
For full documentation, including API reference, please see https://pytest-subprocess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
Contributing
Contributions are very welcome. Tests can be run with tox, please ensure the coverage at least stays the same before you submit a pull request.
License
Distributed under the terms of the MIT license, “pytest-subprocess” is free and open source software
Issues
If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.
This pytest plugin was generated with Cookiecutter along with @hackebrot’s cookiecutter-pytest-plugin template.
History
0.1.2 (2020-01-17)
Features
#3: Add basic support for process input.
Bug fixes
#5: Make wait() method to raise TimeoutError after the desired time will elapsed.
Documentation changes
Other changes
0.1.1 (2019-11-24)
Other changes
0.1.0 (2019-11-23)
Initial release
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