I'd like to point everyone at the CPSUtil.testing.genericsetup
module. It's there to provide helpers for all GenericSetup related
testing.
It was created a while back by Anahide when she corrected a bug in
the Trees Tool I/O, but it hasn't been widely used yet.
The goal is to provide a set of test case base classes to ease all
testing related to GenericSetup that has to be done in a CPS Context.
At the full profile level, we have ExportImportTestCase. You can
use it to make an assertion on a given configuration (e.g., check
some consistency) and track bugs in the import process.
More specifically, it's able to register a profile, import it,
export it and check things in the produced tarball. This is a
ZopeTestCase.
You can use it to import the profile you want to test as well as
one upon which your module relies. Anahide, please correct me if I
missed something.
At the adapter level, we have TestXMLAdapter. This base class can
be used for instance in CPSZCMLLayer. The daughter class has to
implement buildObject (the object to be adapted) and can use
importString to launch importation. See
CPSSchemas.tests.test_exportimport for an example. There's no export
helper yet, since I didn't need it.
If those base classes lack features you need, this is the right place
to implement them, or request them to be implemented.
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