[users at bb.net] Need a bit of help with buildset properties

[Dan Kegel]

I had the properties just fine.  My problem was elsewhere; thanks to
Nils for sorting me out.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm quite inexperienced at writing buildbot test cases (or python
> development in general),
> and the fake database is a bit of a mystery still.
>
> Here's what I'm trying to test:
>  https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/pull/4193
>
> My test test_collapseRequests_collapse_default_with_a_merge_request
> fails; evidently, although I try to set properties on the fake buildset,
> those properties don't appear to be there once the real code is hit.
>
> I'm sure I'm doing something silly somewhere... halp!
>
> (Also, how is one supposed to do debug prints inside test cases?
> I guess the answer is 'not'?  The best I've got is
>         with open("/tmp/fake.log", 'a') as f:
>             f.write("hello, world\n")
> I'm guessing twisted.trial makes writing to log and stdout hard for a reason.)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan