testing.elasticsearch 0.3.0

Automatically sets up an elasticsearch instance in a temporary directory, and destroys it after testing

testing.elasticsearch automatically sets up an elasticsearch instance in a temporary directory, and destroys it after testing. It’s useful as a pytest fixture for testing interactions with elasticsearch in an isolated manner.

Implementation is based off the awesome testing.redis module.

Example usage:

import testing.elasticsearch
import pyes.es import ES

# launch new elasticsearch server:
with testing.elasticsearch.ElasticSearchServer() es:
    elasticsearch = ES(es.uri())
    # perform any testing with elasticsearch here

# elasticsearch server is terminated and cleaned up here

You can change the server configuration by specifying a config dict:

with ElasticSearchServer(config={
    'logger.level': 'DEBUG',
    # Keep index in memory
    'index.store.type': 'mmapfs',
}) as es:
    ...

…or by setting them on the config attribute before starting the server:

es = ElasticSearchServer()
es.config['logger.level'] = 'DEBUG'
es.start()

You can also setup a pytest fixture:

@pytest.fixture(scope='session')
def elasticsearch(request):
    """
    A testing fixture that provides a running elasticsearch server.
    """
    es = ElasticSearchServer()
    es.start()
    request.addfinalizer(es.stop)
    return es

Testing

To run tests you’ll need to install the test requirements:

pip install -r src/tests/requirements.txt

Run tests:

python src/tests/runtests.py