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Thomas De Schampheleire
tests: fix assertion rewriting in some tests with pytest-3.0.0+

Since pytest 3.0.0, asserts present in modules that are not directly seen by
pytest as 'test modules', are no longer rewritten to have improved
reporting, unless they are explicitly marked as up-for-rewriting.
Rationale from pytest upstream:

However since we do not want to test different bytecode then you will
run in production this hook only re-writes test modules themselves as
well as any modules which are part of plugins. Any other imported module
will not be re-written and normal assertion behaviour will happen.

This is e.g. the case for asserts in files like
kallithea/tests/api/api_base.py and kallithea/tests/models/common.py.

See
http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/changelog.html#id13
http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/writing_plugins.html#assertion-rewriting

This commit registers all modules below kallithea.tests for assert
rewriting, but note that asserts in kallithea/tests/__init__.py itself are
not rewritten as kallithea.tests is already imported when the register
statement is encountered.
Moving the register statement to kallithea/__init__.py would fix that, but
even then asserts in kallithea/tests/__init__.py seem not to be rewritten
(let alone the issue that we do not want a pytest dependency enforced in
kallithea/__init__.py which is also used in production).
Moving the code from kallithea/tests/__init__.py to a proper module, as
suggested by Mads Kiilerich, solves that problem.
.. _debugging:

===================
Debugging Kallithea
===================

If you encounter problems with Kallithea, here are some instructions
on how to debug them.

.. note:: First make sure you're using the latest version available.


Enable detailed debug
---------------------

Kallithea uses the standard Python ``logging`` module to log its output.
By default only loggers with ``INFO`` level are displayed. To enable full output
change ``level = DEBUG`` for all logging handlers in the currently used .ini file.
This change will allow you to see much more detailed output in the log file or
console. This generally helps a lot to track issues.


Enable interactive debug mode
-----------------------------

To enable interactive debug mode simply comment out ``set debug = false`` in
the .ini file. This will trigger an interactive debugger each time
there is an error in the browser, or send a http link if an error occurred in the backend. This
is a great tool for fast debugging as you get a handy Python console right
in the web view.

.. warning:: NEVER ENABLE THIS ON PRODUCTION! The interactive console
             can be a serious security threat to your system.