How to write a functional test for a DBUS service written in Python?

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(Title was: \"How to write a unit test for a DBUS service written in Python?\")

I\'ve started to write a DBUS service using dbus-python, but I\'m having trouble writ

Answer 1

You could also start the mainloop in a separate thread very simply inside your setUp method.

Something like this:

import threading
class BaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        myservice = MyDBUSService()
        self.loop = gobject.MainLoop()
        threading.Thread(name='glib mainloop', target=self.loop.run)
    def tearDown(self):
        self.loop.quit()