binding.Component

afterRow ( self )

Perform any post-row tear down

This method is akin to tearDown() in a PyUnit test case. It gives you an opportunity to get rid of objects, reset values, close files, etc. after finishing a row in the test table. The default implementation does nothing.

beforeRow ( self )

Perform any pre-row setup

This method is akin to setUp() in a PyUnit test case. It gives you an opportunity to create objects, reset values, open files, etc. before starting a row in the test table. The default implementation does nothing.

getHandler ( self,  text )

Get a handler using text from a cell

The default implementation computes a method name using self.methodNameFor(text), and then attempts to return getattr(self,methodName).

You can override this routine to return any callable object that accepts a ddt.Cell as its sole parameter.

methodNameFor ( self,  text )

Convert text to a method name

The default implemenation uses titleAsMethodName to normalize the cell text to a "camel case" (e.g. camelCase) format.

processRow (
        self,
        row,
        rows,
        )

Match each cell with a handler, and invoke it

This method matches each cell in the row with the corresponding handler from self.handlers, and then calls handler(cell). If a handler raises an exception, attempt to annotate the cell with the appropriate error information.

processRows ( self,  rows )

Set up methods from the heading row, then process other rows

This method invokes self.setupHandlers(row,rows) on the "heading" row (the row after the title row naming the processor for this table). It then invokes self.processRow(row,rows) on the remaining rows.

setupHandlers (
        self,
        row,
        rows,
        )

Obtain a handler (method) corresponding to each column heading

Obtain a handler using self.getHandler(cell.text) for each cell in the heading row, and put them in self.handlers in the same order as they appear in the table. If an error occurs when looking up a handler, the corresponding cell is annotated with error information, and the table's contents are skipped, by consuming the rows iterator.