Unit testingΒΆ
Unit testing of code that uses the Javabridge requires special care because the JVM can only be run once: after you kill it, it cannot be restarted. Therefore, the JVM cannot be started and stopped in the regular setUp()
and tearDown()
methods.
We provide a plugin to Nose that
takes care of starting and stopping the JVM. The plugin’s name is
javabridge.noseplugin
. Installing the Javabridge adds the plugin
to Nose.
To use the plugin for your own project, in the [nosetests]
section
to your setup.cfg
, add with-javabridge = True
. You can also
specify a classpath; the jar files required for javabridge to function
(javabridge.JARS
) will be added to this path:
[nosetests]
with-javabridge = True
classpath = my-project/jars/foo.jar
You should then be able to run the nosetests
command:
nosetests
On some installations, setuptools’s nosetests command will also work:
python setup.py nosetests
If you prefer, these options can also be given on the command line:
nosetests --with-javabridge=True --classpath=my-project/jars/foo.jar
or:
python setup.py nosetests --with-javabridge=True --classpath=my-project/jars/foo.jar