Testing Plugin Manager State Isolation in Apache Airflow
This test suite implements mocking utilities for Airflow’s plugin manager, providing controlled testing environments for plugin-related functionality. It enables isolation of plugin manager state and prevents test interference through careful management of global variables.
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apache/airflow
tests_common/test_utils/mock_plugins.py
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from __future__ import annotations
from contextlib import ExitStack, contextmanager
from unittest import mock
from airflow import __version__ as airflow_version
PLUGINS_MANAGER_NULLABLE_ATTRIBUTES = [
"plugins",
"macros_modules",
"admin_views",
"flask_blueprints",
"fastapi_apps",
"menu_links",
"flask_appbuilder_views",
"flask_appbuilder_menu_links",
"global_operator_extra_links",
"operator_extra_links",
"registered_operator_link_classes",
"timetable_classes",
"hook_lineage_reader_classes",
]
PLUGINS_MANAGER_NULLABLE_ATTRIBUTES_V2_10 = [
"plugins",
"macros_modules",
"admin_views",
"flask_blueprints",
"menu_links",
"flask_appbuilder_views",
"flask_appbuilder_menu_links",
"global_operator_extra_links",
"operator_extra_links",
"registered_operator_link_classes",
"timetable_classes",
"hook_lineage_reader_classes",
]
@contextmanager
def mock_plugin_manager(plugins=None, **kwargs):
"""
Protects the initial state and sets the default state for the airflow.plugins module.
You can also overwrite variables by passing a keyword argument.
airflow.plugins_manager uses many global variables. To avoid side effects, this decorator performs
the following operations:
1. saves variables state,
2. set variables to default value,
3. executes context code,
4. restores the state of variables to the state from point 1.
Use this context if you want your test to not have side effects in airflow.plugins_manager, and
other tests do not affect the results of this test.
"""
illegal_arguments = set(kwargs.keys()) - set(PLUGINS_MANAGER_NULLABLE_ATTRIBUTES) - {"import_errors"}
if illegal_arguments:
raise TypeError(
f"TypeError: mock_plugin_manager got an unexpected keyword arguments: {illegal_arguments}"
)
# Handle plugins specially
with ExitStack() as exit_stack:
def mock_loaded_plugins():
exit_stack.enter_context(mock.patch("airflow.plugins_manager.plugins", plugins or []))
exit_stack.enter_context(
mock.patch(
"airflow.plugins_manager.load_plugins_from_plugin_directory", side_effect=mock_loaded_plugins
)
)
if airflow_version <= "3":
ATTR_TO_PATCH = PLUGINS_MANAGER_NULLABLE_ATTRIBUTES_V2_10
else:
ATTR_TO_PATCH = PLUGINS_MANAGER_NULLABLE_ATTRIBUTES
for attr in ATTR_TO_PATCH:
exit_stack.enter_context(mock.patch(f"airflow.plugins_manager.{attr}", kwargs.get(attr)))
# Always start the block with an empty plugins, so ensure_plugins_loaded runs.
exit_stack.enter_context(mock.patch("airflow.plugins_manager.plugins", None))
exit_stack.enter_context(
mock.patch("airflow.plugins_manager.import_errors", kwargs.get("import_errors", {}))
)
yield