testing a workflow script

[Héctor Velarde]

Rob Miller wrote:
> that being said, your original problem may not be related to the 
> security settings on the script at all.  it may be that even if you get 
> the security all dialed in, there's some explicit security check in the 
> code that is causing the problem.  if you end up performing your 
> operation from trusted code but still have the problem, then you'll need 
> to dig more deeply to find out exactly why the action is being 
> disallowed.  see http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/debug-unauthorized.

I tested this with few luck; fortunately Carlos de la Guardia came into 
rescue and recommended me to use import transaction and 
transaction.savepoint(optimistic=True).

in case someone needs to do something like this, this is the way it worked:

import transaction

class TestWorkflow(JuliusLiteTestCase):
     """ ensure workflow script works """

     def afterSetUp(self):
         self.catalog  = getattr(self.folder, 'portal_catalog')
         self.workflow = getattr(self.folder, 'portal_workflow')
         self.folder.invokeFactory('News Item', 'object')
         self.object = getattr(self.folder, 'object')
         self.object.setTitle('test')

     def testArchiveItem(self):
         """ test the script inside the workflow """
         #need to commit transaction to be able to copy and paste
         transaction.savepoint(optimistic=True)
         self.folder.archiveItem(self)
         self.failUnless(getattr(self.folder, 'object', None) is None)
         results = self.catalog.searchResults(Title='test')
         self.failUnlessEqual(len(results), 1)