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user611105
user611105

Reputation:

Python patch object with a side_effect

I'm trying to have a Mock object return certain values based on the input given. I looked up a few examples on SO and for some reason I still can't get it to work. Here's what I have right now.

class EmailChecker():
    def is_email_correct(email):
        some regex to determine if email is valid, returns either True or False

def my_side_effect(**args):
    if args[0] == '1':
        return True
    else:
        return False

myMock = mock.patch.object(EmailChecker, 'is_email_correct', side_effect=my_side_effect)

Yet it doesn't seem to work. What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 34

Views: 73674

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 368924

Use patch.object as a decorator or context manager, as in the following code:

>>> class EmailChecker():
...     def is_email_correct(self, email):
...         pass
... 
>>> def my_side_effect(*args):
...     if args[0] == '1':
...         return True
...     else:
...         return False
... 
>>> with mock.patch.object(EmailChecker, 'is_email_correct', side_effect=my_side_effect):
...     checker = EmailChecker()
...     print(checker.is_email_correct('1'))
...     print(checker.is_email_correct('2'))
... 
True
False

NOTE: Replaced **args with *args. Added missing self argument to is_email_correct method.

my_side_effect could be simplified as follows:

def my_side_effect(email): 
    return email == '1'

Upvotes: 41

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