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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 11:54:04 JST Evan Prodromou

   I've been working on the command-line API client, ap, for the ActivityPub book I'm writing for O'Reilly Media. It's a Python program that implements commands like `ap inbox` (read the inbox) and `ap reject follower` (reject a pending follower).

   Originally, I was testing it live, just running it against onepage.pub. This weekend, I buckled down and wrote real unit tests with unittest.mock. It's been amazing; what a great tool.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 11:57:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I've been able to mock behaviour very much at the outer boundaries of the app, like:

     - Faking command-line options
     - Faking the data in the user's token file
     - Faking HTTP GET requests for actors, streams, and objects
     - Faking HTTP POST requests to create new activities
     - Faking user input

     Overall, it's been a really fun, interesting process. I had ~20 commands programmed with no tests, and I've been able to add tests for almost all of them in less than a day of coding.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 12:01:19 JST Evan Prodromou

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     https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 13:22:54 JST Nathan Schneider

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     @evan This is a manual I want on my bedside table. Can't wait!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 14:45:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Justin Thomas 🛡

     @justin cool. We should check for interoperability. Also, cool URL.

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     Justin Thomas 🛡 (justin@ser.endipito.us)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 14:45:45 JST Justin Thomas 🛡

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     @evan I've been building something in the same vein in Rust for my own testing: https://gitlab.com/justindthomas/sofapub