Mocking gitlab in python

Oxbowmarrow · May 7, 2020, 10:30am

I have a script that uses git to install other GitLab programs. I have been able to create unit tests for git by creating a local and ‘remote’ repo on my local machine. This way I can test my git related code without requiring git to be up. Is there a way I can do a similar thing for GitLab in python.

dnsmichi · May 7, 2020, 11:59am

Hi,

Can you please share the structure of this script? I am not sure if I am follow your intentions here. Maybe also what you mean specifically with mocking GitLab in Python - is that a mock for the Git server API, or likewise?

Cheers,
Michael

Oxbowmarrow · May 7, 2020, 1:21pm

Yes it is a mock for the Git server API using this allows me to test all of my code apart from this line

 f'git clone -b {branch} --single-branch https://{deploy_token_username}:{deploy_token}@gitlab.com

Is there a way I can run this command without actually interacting with the GitLab servers

dnsmichi · May 8, 2020, 12:23pm

Hi,

there is a great Python library for using the REST API. Their code includes tests where they seem to mock the HTTP server for specific requests.

github.com

python-gitlab/python-gitlab/blob/2a01326e8e02bbf418b3f4c49ffa60c735b107dc/gitlab/tests/test_gitlab.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
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#                    Tampere University of Technology
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import os
import pickle

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You should be able to adopt and implement this by yourself. Another option I could think of would be starting off your own development instance of GitLab. This is described in the contributing docs:

Cheers,
Michael