development environment broken

Thanks to help from Gary, as an intermediate fix, the following diff allows the development environment to work again (it just restricts the version of buildout to the previous version):

https://pastebin.canonical.com/36605/

But with that fix, there are many test errors (ComponentLookupErrors). At first I assumed this was related to the buildout issues, but after more help from Gary, he showed that they are not. I went back through the revisions, and it appears these errors began with revision 81: [merge] Merged in lp:~canonical-isd-hackers/software-center-agent/caching (reverting back to r80 shows tests behaving normally).

Full details from Gary: https://pastebin.canonical.com/36606/

Currently in trunk the development environment builds and passes all tests if:
 - You're runing lucid
 - You have python-lazr.restful and python-lazr.restfulclient installed, and python-mock *not* installed
 - You create a virtualenv without --no-site-packages, and activate it before running make.

What I can't figure out is a set of versions of lazr.restful(client) to use with buildout as the packaged versions that come in lucid (lazr.restful 0.9.19 and lazr.restfulclient 0.9.11) don't seem to be the same code as you pull with buildout.

The related branch adjusts the buildout process to pull in lucid's exact same version numbers, but there's one test that still fails. I've tried different similar versions to no avail.

Suggestions welcome!

Instance needs a port opening in order to work correctly.

Hi Dave,

To run tests or to actually run a server locally?

I'd want all tests to pass without needing to open ports (should not be using anything other than the local network), but I don't expect a dev server to work out of the box with staging services etc.

Thanks!

This fix is not qa-able, as it just ensures that the development environment builds correctly. If you look at the MP most changes are in the buildout.cfg, readme and tests.

There is one change however in code that enables newer versions of lazr.restful to work too, this is the one-line addition in: 'src/softwarecenteragent/models/webservice.py'.