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# Copyright (C) 2005 by Canonical Ltd
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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"""Test helper for constructing and testing directories.
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This module transforms filesystem directories to and from Python lists.
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As a Python list the descriptions can be stored in test cases, compared,
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# TODO: Script to write a description of a directory for testing
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# TODO: Helper that compares two structures and raises a helpful error
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# where they differ. Option to ignore some files or directories in the
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def build_tree_contents(template):
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"""Reconstitute some files from a text description.
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Each element of template is a tuple. The first element is a filename,
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with an optional ending character indicating the type.
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The template is built relative to the Python process's current
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raise NotImplementedError('symlinks not handled yet')
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def pack_tree_contents(top):
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"""Make a Python datastructure description of a tree.
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If top is an absolute path the descriptions will be absolute."""
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for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(top):
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yield (dirpath + '/', )
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fullpath = os.path.join(dirpath, fn)
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yield (fullpath, file(fullpath, 'rb').read())