Difficulties with the testing

[schtibe]

I still have difficulties running the tests. Following steps were taken:

1. cloned the repo
2. ran pip install -e
3. ran python runtests.py

Now I get following output (truncated)

============================================================================================================= test session starts =============================================================================================================
platform linux -- Python 3.5.1 -- py-1.4.30 -- pytest-2.7.2
django settings: example.settings.test (from ini file)
rootdir: /home/sh/coding/contributing/django-rest-framework-json-api, inifile: pytest.ini
plugins: django, factoryboy
collected 3 items / 16 errors 

example/tests/test_multiple_id_mixin.py ..
example/tests/test_sideload_resources.py .

=================================================================================================================== ERRORS ====================================================================================================================
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ERROR collecting example/tests/test_format_keys.py ______________________________________________________________________________________________
_pytest.runner:149: in __init__
    ???
_pytest.main:437: in _memocollect
    ???
_pytest.main:314: in _memoizedcall
    ???
_pytest.main:437: in 
    ???
_pytest.python:482: in collect
    ???
_pytest.python:1750: in parsefactories
    ???
_pytest.python:266: in fget
    ???
_pytest.python:479: in _getobj
    ???
_pytest.main:314: in _memoizedcall
    ???
_pytest.python:488: in _importtestmodule
    ???
py._path.local:650: in pyimport
    ???
:969: in _find_and_load
    ???
:954: in _find_and_load_unlocked
    ???
:892: in _find_spec
    ???
:873: in _find_spec_legacy
    ???
_pytest.assertion.rewrite:137: in find_module
    ???
_pytest.assertion.rewrite:278: in _rewrite_test
    ???
_pytest.assertion.rewrite:336: in rewrite_asserts
    ???
_pytest.assertion.rewrite:557: in run
    ???
/usr/lib/python3.5/ast.py:245: in visit
    return visitor(node)
_pytest.assertion.rewrite:665: in visit_Assert
    ???
/usr/lib/python3.5/ast.py:245: in visit
    return visitor(node)
_pytest.assertion.rewrite:796: in visit_Compare
    ???
/usr/lib/python3.5/ast.py:245: in visit
    return visitor(node)
_pytest.assertion.rewrite:700: in visit_Name
    ???
E   TypeError: Call constructor takes either 0 or 3 positional arguments

This output repeats for every test...

Now, as a sidenote, I actually don't like having all this stuff globally on my OS, so I tried with a virtualenv too. What then happens is following error:

============================================================================================================= test session starts =============================================================================================================
platform linux -- Python 3.5.1 -- py-1.4.30 -- pytest-2.7.2
rootdir: /home/sh/coding/contributing/django-rest-framework-json-api, inifile: pytest.ini
collected 0 items / 1 errors 

=================================================================================================================== ERRORS ====================================================================================================================
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ERROR collecting  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_pytest.runner:149: in __init__
    ???
_pytest.main:437: in _memocollect
    ???
_pytest.main:314: in _memoizedcall
    ???
_pytest.main:437: in 
    ???
_pytest.main:594: in collect
    ???
_pytest.main:609: in _collect
    ???
py._path.common:332: in visit
    ???
py._path.common:378: in gen
    ???
py._path.common:367: in gen
    ???
py._path.common:368: in 
    ???
_pytest.main:632: in _recurse
    ???
_pytest.main:162: in __getattr__
    ???
_pytest.config:692: in _getmatchingplugins
    ???
_pytest.config:521: in getconftestmodules
    ???
_pytest.config:545: in importconftest
    ???
E   _pytest.config.ConftestImportFailure: (local('/home/sh/coding/contributing/django-rest-framework-json-api/example/tests/conftest.py'), (, ImproperlyConfigured('Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.',), ))

I'm not familiar with pytest at all. A little more guidance for running those tests would be very nice :)

[jerel]

You also need to install the dependencies via pip install -r requirements-development.txt

[schtibe]

@jerel doesn't help, still get the errors in the first dump

[jerel]

Is that with a virtualenv active? I didn't mention that earlier but that is the way you should run it.

[schtibe]

Yes. I recorded it, maybe you see the fault there: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=102247

[abdulhaq-e]

py.test deprecated the generation of test scripts, see: https://pytest.org/latest/goodpractices.html#deprecated-create-a-pytest-standalone-script

Try running the tests using just py.test.

[schtibe]

@abdulhaq-e thank you sir!