vpp_papi: Context_id allocator for running forked.

When running forked, distinct copies of the 'get_context'
singleton are created for each process.  To run under forked processes,
(as with make test TEST_JOBS=10), we need to use a shared
memory value across the processes.

Type: fix

Change-Id: I9eab8ce46ec23584e5bd651735ad75fd3f018e1a
Signed-off-by: Paul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com>

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/tests/test_vpp_papi.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/tests/test_vpp_papi.py
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+#  Copyright (c) 2019. Vinci Consulting Corp. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+import ctypes
+import multiprocessing as mp
+import unittest
+from vpp_papi import vpp_papi
+
+
+class TestVppPapiVPPApiClient(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_getcontext(self):
+        vpp_papi.VPPApiClient.apidir = '.'
+        c = vpp_papi.VPPApiClient(testmode=True, use_socket=True)
+
+        # reset initialization at module load time.
+        c.get_context.context = mp.Value(ctypes.c_uint, 0)
+        for _ in range(10):
+            c.get_context()
+        self.assertEqual(11, c.get_context())
+
+
+class TestVppPapiVPPApiClientMp(unittest.TestCase):
+    # Test under multiple processes to simulate running forked under
+    # run_tests.py (eg. make test TEST_JOBS=10)
+
+    def test_get_context_mp(self):
+        vpp_papi.VPPApiClient.apidir = '.'
+        c = vpp_papi.VPPApiClient(testmode=True, use_socket=True)
+
+        # reset initialization at module load time.
+        c.get_context.context = mp.Value(ctypes.c_uint, 0)
+        procs = [mp.Process(target=c.get_context, args=()) for i in range(10)]
+
+        for p in procs:
+            p.start()
+        for p in procs:
+            p.join()
+
+        # AssertionError: 11 != 1
+        self.assertEqual(11, c.get_context())
+