nova/HACKING.rst

Nova Style Commandments

• Step 1: Read the OpenStack Style Commandments http://docs.openstack.org/developer/hacking/
• Step 2: Read on

Nova Specific Commandments

• nova.db imports are not allowed in nova/virt/*
• [N309] no db session in public API methods (disabled) This enforces a guideline defined in oslo.db.sqlalchemy.session
• [N310] timeutils.utcnow() wrapper must be used instead of direct calls to datetime.datetime.utcnow() to make it easy to override its return value in tests
• [N311] importing code from other virt drivers forbidden Code that needs to be shared between virt drivers should be moved into a common module
• [N312] using config vars from other virt drivers forbidden Config parameters that need to be shared between virt drivers should be moved into a common module
• [N313] capitalize help string Config parameter help strings should have a capitalized first letter
• [N314] vim configuration should not be kept in source files.
• [N316] Change assertTrue(isinstance(A, B)) by optimal assert like assertIsInstance(A, B).
• [N317] Change assertEqual(type(A), B) by optimal assert like assertIsInstance(A, B)
• [N318] Change assertEqual(A, None) or assertEqual(None, A) by optimal assert like assertIsNone(A)
• [N319] Validate that debug level logs are not translated.
• [N320] Setting CONF.* attributes directly in tests is forbidden. Use self.flags(option=value) instead.
• [N321] Validate that LOG messages, except debug ones, have translations
• [N322] Method's default argument shouldn't be mutable
• [N323] Ensure that the _() function is explicitly imported to ensure proper translations.
• [N324] Ensure that jsonutils.%(fun)s must be used instead of json.%(fun)s
• [N325] str() and unicode() cannot be used on an exception. Remove use or use six.text_type()
• [N326] Translated messages cannot be concatenated. String should be included in translated message.
• [N328] Validate that LOG.info messages use _LI.
• [N329] Validate that LOG.exception messages use _LE.
• [N330] Validate that LOG.warning and LOG.warn messages use _LW.
• [N332] Check that the api_version decorator is the first decorator on a method
• [N334] Change assertTrue/False(A in/not in B, message) to the more specific assertIn/NotIn(A, B, message)
• [N335] Check for usage of deprecated assertRaisesRegexp
• [N336] Must use a dict comprehension instead of a dict constructor with a sequence of key-value pairs.
• [N337] Don't import translation in tests
• [N338] Change assertEqual(A in B, True), assertEqual(True, A in B), assertEqual(A in B, False) or assertEqual(False, A in B) to the more specific assertIn/NotIn(A, B)
• [N339] Check common raise_feature_not_supported() is used for v2.1 HTTPNotImplemented response.
• [N340] Check nova.utils.spawn() is used instead of greenthread.spawn()

Creating Unit Tests

For every new feature, unit tests should be created that both test and (implicitly) document the usage of said feature. If submitting a patch for a bug that had no unit test, a new passing unit test should be added. If a submitted bug fix does have a unit test, be sure to add a new one that fails without the patch and passes with the patch.

For more information on creating unit tests and utilizing the testing infrastructure in OpenStack Nova, please read nova/tests/unit/README.rst.

Running Tests

The testing system is based on a combination of tox and testr. The canonical approach to running tests is to simply run the command tox. This will create virtual environments, populate them with dependencies and run all of the tests that OpenStack CI systems run. Behind the scenes, tox is running testr run --parallel, but is set up such that you can supply any additional testr arguments that are needed to tox. For example, you can run: tox -- --analyze-isolation to cause tox to tell testr to add --analyze-isolation to its argument list.

Python packages may also have dependencies that are outside of tox's ability to install. Please refer to doc/source/development.environment.rst for a list of those packages on Ubuntu, Fedora and Mac OS X.

To run a single or restricted set of tests, pass a regex that matches the class name containing the tests as an extra tox argument; e.g. tox -- TestWSGIServer (note the double-hypen) will test all WSGI server tests from nova/tests/unit/test_wsgi.py; -- TestWSGIServer.test_uri_length_limit would run just that test, and -- TestWSGIServer|TestWSGIServerWithSSL would run tests from both classes.

It is also possible to run the tests inside of a virtual environment you have created, or it is possible that you have all of the dependencies installed locally already. In this case, you can interact with the testr command directly. Running testr run will run the entire test suite. testr run --parallel will run it in parallel (this is the default incantation tox uses.) More information about testr can be found at: http://wiki.openstack.org/testr

Building Docs

Normal Sphinx docs can be built via the setuptools build_sphinx command. To do this via tox, simply run tox -e docs, which will cause a virtualenv with all of the needed dependencies to be created and then inside of the virtualenv, the docs will be created and put into doc/build/html.

Building a PDF of the Documentation

If you'd like a PDF of the documentation, you'll need LaTeX and ImageMagick installed, and additionally some fonts. On Ubuntu systems, you can get what you need with:

apt-get install texlive-full imagemagick

Then you can then use the build_latex_pdf.sh script in tools/ to take care of both the the sphinx latex generation and the latex compilation. For example:

tools/build_latex_pdf.sh

The script must be run from the root of the Nova repository and it'll copy the output pdf to Nova.pdf in that directory.