Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: mockselector
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: Mock subclass of BaseSelector
Home-page: https://github.com/s-ball/MockSelector
Author: SBA
Author-email: s-ball@laposte.net
License: MIT
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Testing :: Mocking
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Requires-Python: >=3.5
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown

# MockSelector

## Description

This is a collection of Python classes designed to help to test TCP servers
based on selectors. The `mockselector` package provides everything needed to easily write
unittest TestCases simulating incoming connections and the associated
input data

## Installation

The current version is only available on Github. To use it, you must first
get a local copy by downloading a zipfile or cloning the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/s-ball/MockSelector.git

You can then install it in your main Python installation or in a venv with:

    python setup.py install

or on Windows with the launcher:

    py setup.py install

## Basic use

Once installed, you can easily import it in your tests.

```
from mockselector.selector import MockSocket, ListenSocket, MockSelector
```

`MockSelector` is a `selectors.BaseSelector` subclass. At creation time it
takes an iterable of objects. Those objects can be:

* a `socket.socket` (or a `Mock`) that will be returned by a `select` call
along with an `EVENT_READ` event
* a pair `(socket, event)` that will be returned - this allows to pass
`EVENT_WRITE` events
* an iterable of above elements. They will be returned in a list by a
single `select` call as *simultaneous* events

`MockSocket` is a specialization of a `Mock(socket.socket)`. Its initializer
takes an iterable of byte strings or functions returning byte strings.
The functions can be used as a run time side effect to set a flag in a
server and allow a clean exit from the main loop.
The byte strings are returned one at a time by the `recv` method. When
the iterable is exhausted, `recv` returns an empty byte string (`b''`)
to mimic a client close or shutdown on the socket.

`ListenSocket` is used to mimic a listening socket. Its initializer takes
an iterable of `socket.socket` objects (including plain `Mock` or
`MockSocket` objects) or callables returning an object like that.
The socket objects are returned one at a time by the `accept` method.

### Typical use

Facing a main server loop close to:

```
        ...
        s = socket.socket()
        s.bind(('0.0.0.0', self.port))
        s.listen()
        sel = DefaultSelector()
        sel.register(s, EVENT_READ)
        while not self.stop:
            for key, event in sel.select():
                if key.fileobj == s:
                    c, _ = s.accept()
                    sel.register(c, EVENT_READ)
                else:
                    c = key.fileobj
                    data = c.recv(1024)
                    if len(data) == 0:
                        sel.unregister(c)
                        c.close()
                    else:
                        # process received data
                        ...
```
You can do:

```
    def test_run_stop(self):
        def do_stop(serv):
            serv.stop = True
            return b''
        serv = ...                  # an instance or the serveur to test
        c1 = MockSocket([...])      # a client with its data
        c2 = MockSocket([..., lambda: do_stop(serv)]) # another client asking for end of server loop
        s = ListenSocket((c1, c2))
        sel = MockSelector([s, c1, s, c2, c2, (c1, c2), c1, c2, c2]) # ordered list of events
        with patch('socket.socket') as socket, \
                patch('miniserv.DefaultSelector') as selector:
            socket.return_value = s
            selector.return_value = sel
            serv.run()
```

You can find a full code example in the `miniserv.py` and `test_miniserv.py`
files in the tests folder

## Advanced use and contribution

If you want to tailor the package, it already contains a number of tests.
You can run all of them from the top folder:

```
python setup.py install -e    # edit mode of install to use the local folder
python -m unittest discover
```
I will be glad to receive issues that would help to improve this project...

## Disclaimer: alpha quality

Even if the package has a nice test coverage, it currently only meets the
requirement to test another project of mine. It might not be usable for
your own project, or main contain Still Unidentified Bugs...

It is still a 0.x version, so the API is not guaranteed to be stable.

## License

That work is licenced under a MIT Licence. See [LICENSE.txt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s-ball/MockSelector/master/LICENCE.txt)


