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Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/archive_tests.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/archive_tests.py b/tests/archive_tests.py index febc96b4..e3ee469c 100644 --- a/tests/archive_tests.py +++ b/tests/archive_tests.py @@ -92,12 +92,22 @@ class TarFileArchiveTest(unittest.TestCase): afp = self.tf.open_file('tests/string_test.txt') self.assertEquals('this is my content', afp.read()) - def test_overwrite_file(self): + def test_rewrite_file(self): + """Test that re-writing a file does not modify the content. + + In sos we do not have a use for overwriting archive content + in-place (it is an error if different plugins attempt to + store different content at the same path). + + We do not enforce the content check at runtime since it + would be prohibitively costly: instead just verify in the + unit suite that the original content is preserved. + """ self.tf.add_string('this is my content', 'tests/string_test.txt') self.tf.add_string('this is my new content', 'tests/string_test.txt') afp = self.tf.open_file('tests/string_test.txt') - self.assertEquals('this is my new content', afp.read()) + self.assertEquals('this is my content', afp.read()) def test_make_link(self): self.tf.add_file('tests/ziptest') |