- Make it possible to have ``testing.DummyTemplateRenderer`` return

  some nondefault string representation.

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 85b0a8054..283567f22 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Next release
   None names in intermediate nodes will replace the None with the
   empty string, and, as a result, the error won't be raised.  Of
   course the URL or path will still be bogus.
+
+- Make it possible to have ``testing.DummyTemplateRenderer`` return
+  some nondefault string representation.
  
 0.6.9 (2009-02-16)
 ==================
diff --git a/repoze/bfg/testing.py b/repoze/bfg/testing.py
index 9f62b9b21..1ad8ddf17 100644
--- a/repoze/bfg/testing.py
+++ b/repoze/bfg/testing.py
@@ -184,15 +184,16 @@ class DummyTemplateRenderer:
     key/value pairs. 
     """
 
-    def __init__(self):
+    def __init__(self, string_response=''):
         self._received = {}
+        self.string_response = string_response
         
     def implementation(self):
         return self
     
     def __call__(self, **kw):
         self._received.update(kw)
-        return ''
+        return self.string_response
 
     def __getattr__(self, k):
         """ Backwards compatibiity """
diff --git a/repoze/bfg/tests/test_testing.py b/repoze/bfg/tests/test_testing.py
index 8aac7d5a0..1154fc27b 100644
--- a/repoze/bfg/tests/test_testing.py
+++ b/repoze/bfg/tests/test_testing.py
@@ -424,12 +424,12 @@ class TestDummyRequest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(request.water, 1)
 
 class TestDummyTemplateRenderer(unittest.TestCase):
-    def _getTargetClass(self):
+    def _getTargetClass(self, ):
         from repoze.bfg.testing import DummyTemplateRenderer
         return DummyTemplateRenderer
 
-    def _makeOne(self,):
-        return self._getTargetClass()()
+    def _makeOne(self, string_response=''):
+        return self._getTargetClass()(string_response=string_response)
 
     def test_implementation(self):
         renderer = self._makeOne()
@@ -448,4 +448,9 @@ class TestDummyTemplateRenderer(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(AssertionError, renderer.assert_, b=3)
         self.failUnless(renderer.assert_(a=1, b=2))
         
+    def test_nondefault_string_response(self):
+        renderer = self._makeOne('abc')
+        result = renderer(a=1, b=2)
+        self.assertEqual(result, 'abc')
+