You're supposed to clean up whatever junk you left in the reactor after your test. Do that in the tearDown method.
cheers lvh On 23 May 2012, at 23:30, Conway, Nicholas J wrote: > Hi, > > I have a class that needs to kick off a method the repeatedly gets call every > so many seconds, lets say 2 seconds. > > I chose to use task.deferLater to do this, but seems like LoopingCall gives > similar results.. > > I've boiled it down to the following example > >>>> > from twisted.internet import reactor, task > from twisted.trial import unittest > > class MyLoop(object): > def __init__(self): > self.updateParameters() > > def updateParameters(self): > d = task.deferLater(reactor, 2, self.dosomething) > > def dosomething(self): > print "cool" > > class LoopTestCase(unittest.TestCase): > def setUp(self): > self.cL = MyLoop() > > def test_dummy(self): > d = defer.Deferred() > d.addCallback(lambda x: x) > d.callback(None) > return d # return a deferred just in case but happens either way > >>>>> > MyLoop works when running normally with a reactor.run(), but when I try run > this test, I get the following error: > > [ERROR] > Traceback (most recent call last): > Failure: twisted.trial.util.DirtyReactorAggregateError: Reactor was unclean. > DelayedCalls: (set twisted.internet.base.DelayedCall.debug = True to debug) > <DelayedCall 0x1018fbb90 [1.99891901016s] called=0 cancelled=0 > Deferred.callback(None)> > > So I don't fully understand what's going on to cause this. Any pointers > would be appreciated > > Thanks, > > -Nick > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
