openflexure-microscope-server/hardware-specific-tests/picamera2/cam_test_utils/__init__.py
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"""Utilities to help with testing the camera."""
import tempfile
from contextlib import contextmanager
from typing import Optional
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
import labthings_fastapi as lt
from openflexure_microscope_server.things.camera.picamera import StreamingPiCamera2
@contextmanager
def camera_test_client(
cam: Optional[StreamingPiCamera2] = None, settings_folder: Optional[str] = None
):
"""Yield a camera ThingClient on a camera server.
This is a context manager, not a pytest fixture, as it needs to be created
multiple times in some tests.
:param cam: The camera Thing to be used. If not supplied a new one will be created.
:param settings_folder: The settings folder for the camera, if none is supplied, new
temporary directory will be used as the settings folder.
"""
if cam is None:
cam = StreamingPiCamera2()
# Create a temp dir, if the setting folder is set it isn't really needed
# but doesn't add much overhead.
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
if settings_folder is None:
settings_folder = tmpdir
server = lt.ThingServer(settings_folder=settings_folder)
server.add_thing(cam, "camera")
with TestClient(server.app) as test_client:
client = lt.ThingClient.from_url("camera", client=test_client)
yield client
del server
del cam