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From: Christian López Espínola <clopez@emergya.es>
To: development@drupal.org
Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 6:02:08 PM
Subject: [development] Variable overriding in SimpleTest environments

Hi,

I'm trying to build with SimpleTest some acceptance tests for the D6 based sites I'm developing.

For achieving this, I am creating a module that checks if configuration values are the correct ones, with tests like this one:

  public function testFileDirectoryPathIsTheRightOne () {
    $dirpath = variable_get('file_directory_path', 'sites/default/files'); // tried file_directory_path() too instead of reading the variable.
    $this->pass($dirpath);
    $this->assertEqual(
      'sites/default/files',
      $dirpath,
      'The file directory path is correct'
    );
  }

But (obviously) the simpletest environment that is being built overrides this setting (p.e.: file_directory_path() and the variable 'file_directory_path' have the value sites/default/files/simpletest/275031).

Is any way of checking the values of the original site? I'm thinking about checking that $dirpath begins with 'sites/default/files', but not sure if there is a better way of assuring this).

Thanks for your time!


-- Christian López Espínola
Área de Proyectos

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