Azure-docs: Azure Functions, python reference - Unit Testing

[LukeGahan]

Could you please include information on the running of unit tests when importing a module from a SharedCode path (As described in the "Folder Structure" section, from __app__.SharedCode import myFirstHelperFunction).

At present the running of unit tests fails as the __app__ element of the module path is not available.

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• Content: Python developer reference for Azure Functions
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[mike-urnun-msft]

Hi @LukeGahan - Thank you for your feedback! We will review and update as appropriate.

[PramodValavala-MSFT]

@LukeGahan There seems to be an open discussion here - Azure/azure-functions-python-worker#469 - for this which I believe would be a better place to discuss this for a more insightful discussion.

Also, I've tried with direct imports before which I believe should still work and something similar is discussed in the python-worker issue as well.

We are assigning this issue to the content author for further review.

[LukeGahan]

Hi @PramodValavala-MSFT ,

Yeap that's definitely helpful, I'll follow up on that thread. I was using direct imports successfully until the end of last week but something seems to have changed in the way the python functions are executed. I tried logging the output of sys.path from my funtion and it seems that the home folder (/home/site/wwwroot/) is not present, which I believe is preventing me from doing a direct import

['/azure-functions-host/workers/python', '/home/site/wwwroot/.python_packages/lib/python3.6/site-packages', '/home/site/wwwroot/worker_venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages', '/tmp/functions\\standby\\wwwroot', '/usr/local/lib/python36.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.6', '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages']

[raphaeldovale]

Any news on this? I needed to change my code due to the changes @LukeGahan said and my tests broke with error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '__app__'

Even following the unit testing section I am unable to make it work.

[jrm346]

Hi guys,

Here is my hacky way of letting me unit test while still having something that runs on the cloud.

try:
    from __app__.SharedCode import myFirstHelperFunction
except ModuleNotFoundError:
    from SharedCode import myFirstHelperFunction

I know its ugly but it lets me unittest and still have working functions.

[mattyweb]

Thanks, @jrm346 ! I'm now doing something similar. The only difference is I was seeing ValueErrors so my exception handling is a little different.

try:
    from ..common import storage_manager
except (ModuleNotFoundError, ValueError):
    from common import storage_manager

The guidance on this still seems lacking to me. I landed on this approach after a few other attempts failed. It should be safe to assume that most real-world usage of Python functions will have both shared code and unit tests. Seems like the docs don't quite reflect that...

[jjgriff93]

Im not sure why this is closed off as this is still very much an issue - following the documentation guidance I still get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '__app__'