From: Michael Foord <michael@voidspace.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:39:16 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Make unittest.mock.create_autospec resilient against AttributeError on original object
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a3~239
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=656319e58d80478c7aa2a783606f0b50053529ae;p=python

Make unittest.mock.create_autospec resilient against AttributeError on original object
---

diff --git a/Lib/unittest/mock.py b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
index ec17542669..04eba918cc 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/mock.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
@@ -2044,10 +2044,14 @@ def create_autospec(spec, spec_set=False, instance=False, _parent=None,
         # object to mock it so we would rather trigger a property than mock
         # the property descriptor. Likewise we want to mock out dynamically
         # provided attributes.
-        # XXXX what about attributes that raise exceptions on being fetched
+        # XXXX what about attributes that raise exceptions other than
+        # AttributeError on being fetched?
         # we could be resilient against it, or catch and propagate the
         # exception when the attribute is fetched from the mock
-        original = getattr(spec, entry)
+        try:
+            original = getattr(spec, entry)
+        except AttributeError:
+            continue
 
         kwargs = {'spec': original}
         if spec_set:
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testhelpers.py b/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testhelpers.py
index a2ed100307..4c43f87dbc 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testhelpers.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testhelpers.py
@@ -651,6 +651,29 @@ class SpecSignatureTest(unittest.TestCase):
         mock.f.assert_called_with(3, 4)
 
 
+    def test_skip_attributeerrors(self):
+        class Raiser(object):
+            def __get__(self, obj, type=None):
+                if obj is None:
+                    raise AttributeError('Can only be accessed via an instance')
+
+        class RaiserClass(object):
+            raiser = Raiser()
+
+            @staticmethod
+            def existing(a, b):
+                return a + b
+
+        s = create_autospec(RaiserClass)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, lambda x: s.existing(1, 2, 3))
+        s.existing(1, 2)
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, lambda: s.nonexisting)
+
+        # check we can fetch the raiser attribute and it has no spec
+        obj = s.raiser
+        obj.foo, obj.bar
+
+
     def test_signature_class(self):
         class Foo(object):
             def __init__(self, a, b=3):