[Developers] freebase-python: bug in tests

Chris Eppstein chris at eppsteins.net
Sun Jan 13 23:24:08 UTC 2008


1) Freebase is collaborative, so you can change the data.
2) Unit tests shouldn't rely on an external datasource. Integration  
tests might...

-chris

On Jan 13, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Vishal Talwar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This message is for the developers of the freebase-python module. I  
> just tried running the tests that come along with the module and I  
> noticed the read test fails:
>
>     def test_read(self):
>         query = {'type':'/music/artist','id':[{}],'name':'Sting',  
> 'album':[{}]}
>
>         mss = HTTPMetawebSession(API_HOST)
>
>         result = mss.mqlread(query)
>         self.assertNotEqual(None, result)
>
> Sting is no longer a musical artist in Freebase (he was at the time  
> of the last update), so this should be fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Vishal
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