mock LDAP server object
Today’s big achievement was an LDAP mock object, similar to the SMTP mock object found in paste.fixture
. I was refactoring the sign in and sign out code of an in-house application that uses LDAP as an authentication store, and I needed to test that the logic of the controllers was correct. So, referring back to Paste’s lovely fixture
module, I came up with the following:
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A bit hackish, yes, but I’m not trying to reimplement LDAP here, I just want to trap the calls I use. Obviously a little bit of work is needed to, say, disallow the bind, or throw an exception, but these are trivial extensions.
Just as in Dummy_smtplib
, you call the classmethod install
to set it up (i.e. monkeypatch ldap.initialize
) and you get to trap how it behaves.
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Simple!