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JimmyT
JimmyT

Reputation: 113

python mocking configobj's return value

I have a method that I would like to create a unittest for. ConfigObj is just a library for parsing config files. The method is very simple:

from configobj import ConfigObj


def read_name():
    conf = ConfigObj('/data/myfile')
    return conf['name']

conf['name'] returns a string value of the 'name' setting in the file. I am trying to write a unit test to mock this return behavior, but I am running into a "KeyError" on conf['name']. It doesn't look like the conf instance was mocked at all.

My test so far:

@mock.patch('configobj.ConfigObj')
def test_read_name(self, mock_configobj):
    config = mock_configobj.return_value
    config.__getitem__.side_effect = 'tom'
    self.assertEqual(read_name(), 'tom')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

JimmyT
JimmyT

Reputation: 113

As it turns out it was very simple

@patch('configobj.ConfigObj.__getitem__', return_value='tom')
    def test_get_name(self, mock_configobj)
    self.assertEqual(read_name(), 'tom')

Upvotes: 1

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