So I've found out how to make this work:
import os
from nose.plugins import Plugin
case_options = None
class test_args(Plugin):
"""
Attempting to add command line parameters.
"""
name = 'test_args'
enabled = True
def options(self, parser, env=os.environ):
super(test_args, self).options(parser, env)
parser.add_option("--hostname",
action="store",
type="str",
help="The hostname of the server")
def configure(self, options, conf):
global case_options
case_options = options
Using this you can do this in your test case to get the options:
from test_args import case_options
To solve the different config file issues, I've found you can use a setup.cfg
file written like an INI file to pass in default command line parameters. You can also pass in a -c config_file.cfg
to pick a different config. This should work nicely for what we need.