Ping Pong is a library for quickly creating line-based interactive programs.
This has been created to provide a mechanism to test programs using expect
. We are using it to create phony interfaces that although do nothing, provide the same interface as the real device. This allows us to test these applications easily.
Besides, special care has been taken to be able to use different protocols. Currently there is a TTY and SSH backends. The later makes use of twisted
, so it should be fairly simple to add other protocols.
Refer to setup.py
- nose
- mock
Examples are available in src/conductor/samples
. Following, there is an example of a session that responds to ping commands:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pingpong.engine import term
from pingpong.engine import ssh
from pingpong import session
class ping_session(session.interactive_session):
def on_begin(self):
self._prompt()
def on_end(self):
pass
def on_abort(self):
self._endl()
self._prompt()
def on_line(self, line):
"""
This is the key. =interactive_session= invokes this method
everytime the peer sends a newline.
"""
if (line == "ping"):
self.transport.write("pong")
self._endl()
self._prompt()
def _prompt(self):
self.transport.write("$ ")
def _endl(self):
self.transport.write("\r\n")
if (__name__ == "__main__"):
e = term.tty_engine() # Uses the current terminal as th engine.
# e = ssh.ssh_engine() # Anternatively you may use SSH protocol as
# well. To test it, you may use:
# $ ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -p 2222 root@localhost
# When asked to enter the password, use `password'.
#
# N.B.: The -o flag is used because we
# create a new pair of RSA keys
# everytime.
e.run(ping_session)
$ make tests
- Version 0.0.1
<2011-09-13 Tue 18:04>
First version