Contributing to Async PRAW

Async PRAW gladly welcomes new contributions. As with most larger projects, we have an established consistent way of doing things. A consistent style increases readability, decreases bug-potential and makes it faster to understand how everything works together.

Async PRAW follows PEP 8 and PEP 257. The pre_push.py script can be used to test for compliance with these PEPs in addition to providing a few other checks. The following are Async PRAW-specific guidelines in addition to those PEP’s.

Note

Python 3.6+ is needed to run the script.

Note

In order to install the dependencies needed to run the script, you can install the [dev] package of asyncpraw, like so:

pip install asyncpraw[dev]

Code

  • Within a single file classes are sorted alphabetically where inheritance permits.

  • Within a class, methods are sorted alphabetically within their respective groups with the following as the grouping order:

    • Static methods

    • Class methods

    • Properties

    • Instance Methods

  • Use descriptive names for the catch-all keyword argument. E.g., **other_options rather than **kwargs.

Testing

Contributions to Async PRAW requires 100% test coverage as reported by Coveralls. If you know how to add a feature, but aren’t sure how to write the necessary tests, please open a PR anyway so we can work with you to write the necessary tests.

Running the Test Suite

Github Actions automatically runs all updates to known branches and pull requests. However, it’s useful to be able to run the tests locally. The simplest way is via:

pytest

Without any configuration or modification, all the tests should pass.

Note

Async PRAW uses a fork of vcrpy before you can run tests locally you must install the forked version.

pip install https://github.com/LilSpazJoekp/vcrpy/archive/asyncpraw.zip

Adding and Updating Integration Tests

Async PRAW’s integration tests utilize vcrpy to record an interaction with Reddit. The recorded interaction is then replayed for subsequent test runs.

To safely record a cassette without leaking your account credentials, Async PRAW utilizes a number of environment variables which are replaced with placeholders in the cassettes. The environment variables are (listed in bash export format):

export prawtest_client_id=myclientid
export prawtest_client_secret=myclientsecret
export prawtest_password=mypassword
export prawtest_test_subreddit=reddit_api_test
export prawtest_username=myusername
export prawtest_user_agent=praw_pytest

By setting these environment variables prior to running python setup.py test, when adding or updating cassettes, instances of mypassword will be replaced by the placeholder text <PASSWORD> and similar for the other environment variables.

To use tokens instead of username/password set prawtest_refresh_token instead of prawtest_password and prawtest_username.

When adding or updating a cassette, you will likely want to force requests to occur again rather than using an existing cassette. The simplest way to rebuild a cassette is to first delete it, and then rerun the test suite.

Please always verify that only the requests you expect to be made are contained within your cassette.

Documentation

  • All publicly available functions, classes and modules should have a docstring.

  • Use correct terminology. A subreddit’s fullname is something like t5_xyfc7. The correct term for a subreddit’s “name” like python is its display name.

Static Checker

Async PRAW’s test suite comes with a checker tool that can warn you of using incorrect documentation styles (using .. code:: instead of .. code-block::, using /r/ instead of r/, etc.).

class tools.static_word_checks.StaticChecker(replace: bool)

Run simple checks on the entire document or specific lines.

__init__(replace: bool)

Initializes the class.

Parameters

replace – Whether or not to make replacements.

check_for_double_syntax(filename: str, content: str)bool

Checks a file for double-slash statements (/r/ and /u/).

Parameters
  • filename – The name of the file to check & replace.

  • content – The content of the file

Returns

A boolean with the status of the check

check_for_noreturn(filename: str, line_number: int, content: str)bool

Checks a line for NoReturn statements.

Parameters
  • filename – The name of the file to check & replace.

  • line_number – The line number

  • content – The content of the line

Returns

A boolean with the status of the check

run_checks()bool

Scan a directory and run the checks.

The directory is assumed to be the asyncpraw directory located in the parent directory of the file, so if this file exists in ~/asyncpraw/tools/static_word_checks.py, it will check ~/asyncpraw/asyncpraw.

It runs the checks located in the self.full_file_checks and self.line_checks lists, with full file checks being run first.

Full-file checks are checks that can also fix the errors they find, while the line checks can just warn about found errors.

Files to Update

AUTHORS.rst

For your first contribution, please add yourself to the end of the respective list in the AUTHORS.rst file.

CHANGES.rst

For feature additions, bugfixes, or code removal please add an appropriate entry to CHANGES.rst. If the Unreleased section does not exist at the top of CHANGES.rst please add it. See commit 280525c16ba28cdd69cdbb272a0e2764b1c7e6a0 for an example.