From 34a7c32ea9f183e69ec47db171be8898f8a96623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 13:12:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] A fixture that makes a real request object

---
 README.rst                         |  9 +++++++++
 src/pgwui_testing/pytest_plugin.py | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 7aba57f..41ecaf3 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ This makes the following fixtures available:
     Side Effects: pyramid.threadlocal.get_current_request() returns
     a Pyramid DummyRequest instance.
 
+  pyramid_real_request_config
+    Input: path, \*\*kwargs
+
+    Is a (regular) Pyramid Configurator instance.
+
+    Side Effects: pyramid.threadlocal.get_current_request() returns
+    a (regular) Pyramid Request instance, created with a call to
+    pyramid.request.Request.blank(path, \*\*kwargs).
+
   pgwui__component_entry_point
     Input: A pgwui component name, as a string
 
diff --git a/src/pgwui_testing/pytest_plugin.py b/src/pgwui_testing/pytest_plugin.py
index 025e55d..ed4b75b 100644
--- a/src/pgwui_testing/pytest_plugin.py
+++ b/src/pgwui_testing/pytest_plugin.py
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ from pyramid.testing import (
 
 from pgwui_testing import pytest_plugin_helpers
 
+import pyramid.request
+
 
 # Fixtures
 
@@ -47,6 +49,25 @@ def pyramid_request_config():
     tearDown()
 
 
+@fixture
+def pyramid_real_request_config(path, **kwargs):
+    '''Returns a Pyramid "testing" Configurator() instance.
+
+    Input:
+      path      An URL path
+      **kwargs  Configuration for a WebOb environ and a Pyramid request
+
+    When called with a path and kwargs, establishes a real Pyramid
+    Request() instance made available via
+    pyramid.threadlocal.get_current_request().  Calling the fixture
+    passes the fixture's arguments to a call to
+    pyramid.request.Request.blank(), to create the request.
+    '''
+    request = pyramid.request.Request.blank(path, **kwargs)
+    yield setUp(request=request)
+    tearDown()
+
+
 @fixture
 def pgwui_component_entry_point():
     '''Test that the supplied pgwui component is a pgui.components entry point
-- 
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