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[Georges Racinet <gracinet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Olivier,

thanks for your kind reply. I've been hit by a storm of work these two
last weeks, and have not been able to do much on that topic until
yesterday.

Follow-up on the framework experts team, as you suggest,

Cheers.

Le 01/09/2011 17:05, Olivier Dony a écrit :
> On 08/28/2011 02:19 PM, Georges Racinet wrote:
>> After a quick search on launchpad, and a code read, I couldn't find much
>> on the matter of cleanly make assertions about exceptions in Yaml tests.
>>
>> To say it quickly, I'm thinking of an analog of unittest's assertRaises
>> (http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.assertRaises)
> You're right, there's currently no provision for assertRaises-like tests
> in YAML, except via a custom !python block with a try/except, as you noted.
>
>
>> In any case, if that's something really missing in the yaml testing
>> framework, I'd be glad to blueprint and implement it (although a
>> backport to 6.0 branch would be our primary interest)
> That would certainly be a welcome contribution! The chance of seeing it
> merged in 6.0 are low however, as the stable branches policy restricts
> allowed patches to bugfixes only.
> That said, it could be merged in trunk and thus part of the upcoming
> 6.1, and nothing prevents you to run your own yaml-patched 6.0 server
> for your 6.0 developments, until you decide to move on to 6.1. You'd
> still have the guarantee that those tests would be ready for 6.1.
>
> As for shaping up such a blueprint, may I suggest the mailing-list of
> the framework experts team
> (https://launchpad.net/~openerp-expert-framework) as an appropriate
> place to discuss it?


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