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authorPaul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com>2020-12-01 02:00:35 -0500
committerOle Tr�an <otroan@employees.org>2020-12-02 10:11:38 +0000
commit46d6864b9de6d722c4b6eb72d231918b251e267d (patch)
treeda7ee42cf062779f0a0958ec90121551ad729b12 /src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_transport_shmem.py
parent41f15ae1dfd4ac1777b684fdc763d12496209418 (diff)
papi: improve unit testability
refactor the code so that snippets of json can be used to test vpp_papi example unit test provided Type: improvement Change-Id: Ibec608fd2e5b12515aa4db17d85d4319134c22ea Signed-off-by: Paul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_transport_shmem.py')
-rw-r--r--src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_transport_shmem.py8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_transport_shmem.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_transport_shmem.py
index fa8943fc119..a7ba26b4722 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_transport_shmem.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_transport_shmem.py
@@ -29,8 +29,12 @@ void vac_mem_init (size_t size);
vpp_object = None
-# Barfs on failure, no need to check success.
-vpp_api = ffi.dlopen('libvppapiclient.so')
+# allow file to be imported so it can be mocked in tests.
+# If the shared library fails, VppTransport cannot be initialized.
+try:
+ vpp_api = ffi.dlopen('libvppapiclient.so')
+except OSError:
+ vpp_api = None
@ffi.callback("void(unsigned char *, int)")