adamchainz/pytest-flake8dir

❄️ A pytest fixture for testing flake8 plugins.

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pytest-flake8dir's Issues

`run_flake8` does not return version string

This test fails unexpectedly: https://github.com/jamescooke/pytest-flake8dir/commit/b88470b7c931cd815562d7d873d09e64d3b6c924 (note the extra space required in ' --version' before the first hyphen. Without this argparse crashes in flake8.

I was expecting the version string to be returned so that I could test that the plugin has been installed with the expected name and version number.

Running with the args via the command line works:

$ flake8 --jobs 1 --exit-zero . --version
3.5.0 (mccabe: 0.6.1, pycodestyle: 2.3.1, pyflakes: 1.6.0) CPython 3.5.2 on Linux

Loading main in ipython and calling that directly works (even though it raises):

In [1]: from flake8.main.cli import main

In [2]: main(argv=['--jobs', '1', '--exit-zero', '.', '--version'])
3.5.0 (My flake8 plugin: 0.0, mccabe: 0.6.1, pycodestyle: 2.3.1, pyflakes: 1.6.0) CPython 3.5.2 on Linux
An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

SystemExit: 0
[ipython warning about exit]

I'm wondering if this is something to do with how Flake8 does something special with --version: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8/blob/master/src/flake8/main/application.py#L96

test_extra_args_version fails if flake8 --version output is too long

If the flake8 --version output is too long, it's broken into two lines and lets the test fail.

Output from slightly patched test_pytest_flake8dir.py to make it evident:

============================================ test session starts ============================================
platform linux -- Python 3.8.2, pytest-5.4.2, py-1.8.1, pluggy-0.13.1 -- /usr/bin/python3
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/pytest-flake8dir-2.2.0
plugins: flake8dir-2.2.0
collected 10 items                                                                                          

tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_make_py_files_single PASSED                                      [ 10%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_make_py_files_double PASSED                                      [ 20%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_make_py_files_no_positional_args PASSED                          [ 30%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_make_py_files_requires_at_least_one_kwarg PASSED                 [ 40%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_make_example_py PASSED                                           [ 50%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_make_setup_cfg PASSED                                            [ 60%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_make_file PASSED                                                 [ 70%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_extra_args PASSED                                                [ 80%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_extra_args_version FAILED                                        [ 90%]
tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_separate_tmpdir PASSED                                           [100%]

================================================= FAILURES ==================================================
__________________________________________ test_extra_args_version __________________________________________

flake8dir = <pytest_flake8dir.Flake8Dir object at 0x7ffb889febe0>

    def test_extra_args_version(flake8dir):
        result = flake8dir.run_flake8(extra_args=["--version"])
        print(result.out_lines)
>       assert len(result.out_lines) == 1
E       assert 2 == 1
E         +2
E         -1

tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py:108: AssertionError
------------------------------------------- Captured stdout call --------------------------------------------
['3.8.1 (mccabe: 0.6.1, pycodestyle: 2.6.0, pyflakes: 2.2.0) CPython 3.8.2 on', 'Linux']
========================================== short test summary info ==========================================
FAILED tests/test_pytest_flake8dir.py::test_extra_args_version - assert 2 == 1
======================================== 1 failed, 9 passed in 1.81s ========================================

Return stderr in addition to stdout

I've just added a bunch of deprecation warnings to a plugin, but I have no way of testing them using this package because no information about stderr is returned. Ideally, I would be able to add tests to verify that the deprecation warnings are firing correctly.

Windows cross compatibility

As discovered by @joaoe on flake8-comprehensions.

Flake8's output differs on Windows, because it outputs the paths, which means e.g. ./example.py on unices becomes .\example.py. It would be good if we translated the paths, or otherwise parsed the output, to allow tests to be written cross-platform.

Document preferred method of installing the plugin under test

Adam - this looks great. I've got it wired in on https://github.com/jamescooke/flake8-aaa and looks like it provides a great integration test layer.

In order to get flake8 to load my plugin when I run pytest, I've had to do pip install -e . . Is there a better way to do this? I think it would be a good idea to document your tried and tested method if possible.

Port to pathlib

Pytest is moving away from py.path to pathlib, we should do the same

https://twitter.com/pytestdotorg/status/1337882166198292480?s=21