Greetings,

Sorry for the late reply. I suspended the subject because of thinking
that I'm doing something wrong again.

I run test as:
 ./run_tests.py -k testserve_static_files test/test_cgi.py
 and get error:
 AssertionError: '/devel/hibcore/src/_test_cgi_form/html/issue.index.html' != '_test_cgi_form/html/issue.index.html'

 I have slightly different code base so this may be not an issue.
 I  note  the subject  because I guess this is related to parts that I didn't
 touch.  I did look in code and wondering how relative path can be expected here.

 The  serve_static_file  has the following assignments:

 filename = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(p, file))

where p is  self.instance.config['TEMPLATES'] or self.instance.config['STATIC_FILES']

'TEMPLATES'       and      'STATIC_FILES'      are      FilePathOption
(MultiFilePathOption)  object.   Both  options return an absolute path
like this:

 if _val and not os.path.isabs(_val):
   _val = os.path.join(self.config["HOME"], _val)

So I don't understand how 'filename' can be a relative path.

But may be I've touched some code and forget.

> John Rouillard added the comment:

> Hi Anthony:

> In message <489608269.20171025170504@inbox.ru>,
> Anthony writes:

>>I  have  a  question about test case failure. Why do test expect relative
>>path but not absolute?
>>
>>test.test_cgi.FormTestCase testMethod=testserve_static_files>
>>
>>    def testserve_static_files(self):
>>     ...
>>
>>        # TEMPLATES dir is searched by default. So this file exists.
>>        # Check the returned values.
>>        cl.serve_static_file("issue.index.html")
>>        self.assertEquals(output[0][1], "text/html")
>>>       self.assertEquals(output[0][3], "_test_cgi_form/html/issue.index.html")
>>E       AssertionError: '/devel/hibcore/src/test/_test_cgi_form/html/issue.index.html' !=
>>'_test_cgi_form/html/issue.index.html'
>>
>>test_cgi.py:1411: AssertionError

> How did you generate this error? Running:

>   ./run_tests.py -k testserve_static_files test/test_cgi.py

>   $PWD/run_tests.py -k testserve_static_files test/test_cgi.py

>   $PWD/roundup/run_tests.py -k testserve_static_files roundup/test/test_cgi.py

> and

>   ./run_tests.py -k testserve_static_files $PWD/test/test_cgi.py

> all work as expected for me. They generate paths relative to the
> current working directory where the test directory is generated.

> I expect the relative paths to be repeatable while an absolute path
> would not repeatable (it would depend on the absolute location of the
> directory where the test was run).

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> nosy: +rouilj

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