Historical Event Unit Test

test_event.py

class TestEvent(unittest.TestCase):

    name = "Invention of the telegraph"
    event_id = 1
    description = "Samuel Morse patents his telegraph"
    event_time = datetime(1840, month=6, day=20)

    event_object = HistoricalEvent(
        event_id,
        name,
        description,
        event_time
    )

    event_json = (
        '{{"description": "{}",'
        ' "event_id": {}, '
        '"event_time": "{}", '
        '"name": "{}"}}'.format(
            description,
            event_id,
            event_time.isoformat(),
            name
        )
    )

    def test_user_serialization(self):
        self.assertEquals(
            json.dumps(self.event_object, cls=EventEncoder, sort_keys=True),
            self.event_json
        )

    def test_user_deserialization(self):
        self.assertEquals(
            self.event_object,
            json.loads(self.event_json, object_hook=HistoricalEvent.fromJson)
        )