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Thomas De Schampheleire

tests: remove race condition in test_forgot_password

One in so many times, test_forgot_password failed with:

kallithea/tests/functional/test_login.py:427: in test_forgot_password
assert '\n%s\n' % token in body
E assert ('\n%s\n' % 'd71ad3ed3c6ca637ad00b7098828d33c56579201') in
"Password Reset Request\n\nHello passwd reset,\n\nWe have received a
request to reset the password for your account.\n\nTo
s...7e89326ca372ade1d424dafb106d824cddb\n\nIf it weren't you who
requested the password reset, just disregard this message.\n"

i.e. the expected token is not the one in the email.

The token is calculated based on a timestamp (among others). And the token
is calculated twice: once in the real code and once in the test, each time
on a slightly different timestamp. Even though there is flooring of the
timestamp to a second resolution, there will always be a race condition
where the two timestamps floor to a different second, e.g. 4.99 vs 5.01.

The problem can be reproduced reliably by adding a sleep of e.g. 2 seconds
before generating the password reset mail (after the test has already
calculated the expected token).

Solve this problem by mocking the time.time() used to generate the
timestamp, so that the timestamp used for the real token is the same as the
one used for the expected token in the test.

.. _vcs_setup:

=============================
Version control systems setup
=============================

Kallithea supports Git and Mercurial repositories out-of-the-box.
For Git, you do need the ``git`` command line client installed on the server.

You can always disable Git or Mercurial support by editing the
file ``kallithea/__init__.py`` and commenting out the backend. For example, to
disable Git but keep Mercurial enabled:

.. code-block:: python

   BACKENDS = {
       'hg': 'Mercurial repository',
       #'git': 'Git repository',
   }


Git-specific setup
------------------


Web server with chunked encoding
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Large Git pushes require an HTTP server with support for
chunked encoding for POST. The Python web servers waitress_ and
gunicorn_ (Linux only) can be used. By default, Kallithea uses
waitress_ for `gearbox serve` instead of the built-in `paste` WSGI
server.

The web server used by gearbox is controlled in the .ini file::

    use = egg:waitress#main

or::

    use = egg:gunicorn#main

Also make sure to comment out the following options::

    threadpool_workers =
    threadpool_max_requests =
    use_threadpool =

Increasing Git HTTP POST buffer size
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If Git pushes fail with HTTP error code 411 (Length Required), you may need to
increase the Git HTTP POST buffer. Run the following command as the user that
runs Kallithea to set a global Git variable to this effect::

    git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000


.. _waitress: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/waitress
.. _gunicorn: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gunicorn
.. _subrepositories: http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/subrepositories/