Re: [Boost-users] [UTF] Accessing global fixture members within tests

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [UTF] Accessing global fixture members within tests
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-03 19:31:29

Simon Pickles <sipickles <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> 
> Simon Pickles wrote:
> > Simon Pickles wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I am using the Unit Test Framework to test my use of boost.python. I 
> >> am using a global fixture to initialize the python intepreter a 
> >> single time (rather than before each test).
> >>
> >> My problem is I would like to use the Python initialising class in my 
> >> tests, and I can't figure out how to do this. I don't want to use 
> >> normal fixtures since each test would call initialize the 
> >> interpreter, causing problems.

Boost.Test does not provide means to do this directly. You can alsays mimic some
kind of singleton though:

struct GlobalFixure {
   GlobalFixure*& instance() { static GlobalFixure* s_inst = 0; return s_inst; }

   GlobalFixure() 
   { 
       instance() = this;
       ... 
   }
};

...

GlobalFixure::instance().m_member.do_something();

Gennadiy