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Thomas De Schampheleire

tests: api: fix intertest dependency on repository locking

In test classes based on unittest, tests are executed in alphabetical order.
In test classes based on pytest, tests are executed in the order they are
specified. This difference revealed a problem in the API tests:

- test_api_lock_repo_lock_optional_locked locks the test repository
- test_api_get_locks_regular_user gets the current locks and expects it to
be empty

With unittest as base class, this worked fine because the 'get_locks' group
of tests are executed before the 'lock_repo' group (alphabetical order).
Using a real pytest-based test class, the order is swapped and the locked
repository from the first test invalidates the preconditions of the second
test.

Fix this specific problem by releasing the lock from
test_api_lock_repo_lock_optional_locked.

This commit does not fix other interdependencies between tests. For example,
test_api_lock_repo_lock_optional_locked expects the existing lock state to
be 'locked' but did not lock the repo itself; instead it expects a previous
test to have locked. In practice, this is
test_api_lock_repo_lock_aquire_optional_userid.
A full solution would make each test fully self contained so that tests can
be executed in random order. The pytest extension pytest-random can help
detecting these problems.

.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    paster make-rcext my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.