"AttributeError: plone" when writing fucntional doctests for Plone 3.0

[Martin Aspeli]

Derek Richardson wrote:
> I am getting an "AttributeError: plone" when attempting to write functional 
> doctests for Plone 3.0:
> 
> 
> Error in test 
> /Users/dkr/viceplone/lib/python/plone/syndication/tests/plone_functional.txt
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File 
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/unittest.py", 
> line 251, in run
>      self.setUp()
>    File "/usr/local/Zope-2.10.3/lib/python/zope/testing/doctest.py", line 2276, 
> in setUp
>      self._dt_setUp(test)
>    File 
> "/usr/local/Zope-2.10.3/lib/python/Testing/ZopeTestCase/zopedoctest/functional.py", 
> line 246, in setUp
>      test_instance.setUp()
>    File 
> "/usr/local/Zope-2.10.3/lib/python/Testing/ZopeTestCase/PortalTestCase.py", line 
> 60, in setUp
>      self.portal = self._portal()
>    File "/Users/dkr/viceplone/Products/PloneTestCase/PloneTestCase.py", line 61, 
> in _portal
>      portal = self.getPortal()
>    File "/Users/dkr/viceplone/Products/PloneTestCase/PloneTestCase.py", line 80, 
> in getPortal
>      return getattr(self.app, portal_name)
> AttributeError: plone
> 
> 
> It looks like the initialization of the test is incomplete or is being 
> interfered with, as the AttributeError seems to be because the PloneTestCase is 
> looking for a "plone" attribute on the zope instance being created for the test 
> and not finding it. Here is the (very simple) test case I've written:
> 
> 
> from Products.PloneTestCase import PloneTestCase
> 
> PloneTestCase.setupPloneSite()
> 
> class ViceTestCase(PloneTestCase.PloneTestCase):
>      pass
> class ViceFunctionalTestCase(PloneTestCase.FunctionalTestCase):
>      pass
> 
> 
> And, more to the point, here is the test runner:
> 
> 
> """Vice functional doctests.
> """
> 
> import doctest
> import unittest
> import FunctionalDocFileSuite as Suite

You probably need the one from Zope's Testing.ZopeTestCase here...

> from plone.syndication.tests import vicetestcase
> 
> OPTIONFLAGS = (doctest.REPORT_ONLY_FIRST_FAILURE |
>                 doctest.ELLIPSIS |
>                 doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE)
> 
> def test_suite():
>      return unittest.TestSuite(
>          Suite("plone_functional.txt",
>              optionflags=OPTIONFLAGS,
>              package='plone.syndication.tests',
>              test_class=vicetestcase.ViceFunctionalTestCase,
>          )
>      )
> 
> 
> I have been trying to emulate the functional doctests in PloneBoard 
> (http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/Ploneboard/trunk/tests).

If you're still stuck, email me in private and I can send you some 
non-public code which I know to work. In return, please help me update 
the testing tutorial on plone.org/documentation/tutorial/testing to make 
sure it's correct. :)

Martin

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