Hey community, Does anyone have a nice way to test functions that are decorated as a

task

with arguments? I want to test the functions logic but unfortunately when

pytest

imports the function it is calling the decorators logic for the

result=

argument, which calls an external dependancy. I have tried to mock the task decorator but I cant seem to crack it.

Try

result = mytask.run()

Yep, I have been doing that. That invokes the decorator before running the class

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Hey Ben, could you show me what your decorator looks like? Mocking the task decorator doesn't seem like best practice here. You should be mocking the external dependency your result type depends on.

My decorator just is

@task(result=Backup.bucket()

where Backup.bucket just returns an S3Result object. I have tried mocking that out, but from my investigation it appears as though decorators mocking works differently and I couldn't manage to get it working.

Hey Ben, glad that is working out for you. I think that's the best way to do it. For the mocking, you could likely include mock patch directly in your conftest.py which should be applied before the import of the function in your test file itself.

Yeah I tried that, unfortunately with no success.