get_free_port

Find a TCP port locally that is not in use and return it. This finds a random port in the range 2000 - 10000. It tests if it is available by binding to it. It the closed the socket and return the port.

This is quite handy for getting a free port to run a service on while acceptance testing.

Example usage:

from evasion.common import net

# Get a free port:
port1 = net.get_free_port()

# Get another free port excluding the first port from the list
port1 = net.get_free_port(exclude_ports=[port1])

wait_for_ready

Called to wait for a web application to respond to normal requests. This is useful when you want to know a web app is not just bound to a socket, but is actually responding 200 OK to root page downloads.

Example usage from unit tests:

from evasion.common import net
from evasion.common import webhelpers

port1 = net.get_free_port()

# Run the web app and wait for ready should connect:
web = webhelpers.BasicWeb(port=port1)
web.start()

result = net.wait_for_ready(web.uri)
assert result

web.stop()

wait_for_service

Called to wait until a socket connection can be made to a remote service.

Example usage from unit tests:

from evasion.common import net
from evasion.common import webhelpers

port1 = net.get_free_port()

# Run the web app and wait for ready should connect:
web = webhelpers.BasicWeb(port=port1)
web.start()

result = net.wait_for_service('localhost', port1)
assert result

web.stop()