[25] Testing ?

Hey @ebreton

Do you find the new --dry-run option in op item create/edit helpful for testing? Keep in mind that authentication is still required to use the --dry-run option.

Given your feedback, I'm also thinking that mock modes for create and edit commands that validate the input could be quite useful.

While we don't have official testing guides, I do my fair share of testing on op as a developer.

My general approach is to have a Test vault, and create items just for testing. Once my testing is done, I usually clean up the test item(s).

To speed things up, I have a few templates of some of the more common item categories as well

Appreciate your input!

To be honest, I have not used --dry-run so much. I am playing around with test vault / items as you do, in order to check both the general behaviour and specific cases.

I have now reached a point where I am writing unittests for my code and I was looking for mocking the op part. Firstofall because I am not really interested into testing the op inside (that's for you folks ;) ) and more important because I do not want the test to require my input to authenticate.

Ideally, I would have something similar as requests-mock which is available for the popular python lib requests. You write code such as the following:


def my_test():
with requests_mock.Mocker() as mocker:
# mock the authentication request
mocker.post(
sender.authentication_url,
json={'access_token': 'test-token'},
status_code=200,
)
# mock a post request that will be performed by my code
mocker.post(sender.post_url, status_code=200)
# test my stuff
...


Ah, I see you meant for programatic testing.

I am not at all familiar with the Python testing paradigms, but in the languages that I am familiar with (Go, Java, C++) I would encapsulate all the op interactions into a module/class/package, and replace it with a https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html#:%7E:text=call__%20method.-,The%20Mock%20Class,always%20return%20the%20same%20mock..

Yes, that would definitively work, and I would need to override all op commands with mocked response.

Actually, I just wanted to check if there was already something to simplify the work ;)

Thanks for digging out my question ^^