Trying to mock method in Object gives 'AttributeError'

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I am trying to test a method in an already existing class. Within

inputStreamThread

method in the

Foo.crawler.crawlerapp.CrawlerApp

class the method

addUrl

is called.

inputStreamThread

reads from stdin and then calls

addUrl

addUrl

is also in the

CrawlerApp

class

I was hoping to be able to use

assert_called_with

on a mock

addUrl

to check that

inputStreamThread

is doing the right thing and calling

addUrl

Trouble is I cannot get the syntax right for the mock of

addUrl

within

CrawlerApp

I used an example straight out of the mock docs but get the error shown below

As you can see I am also mocking stdin to be able to present test data on it

My question is, what code do I use to carry out this sort of test and not get the error shown?

import Foo.crawler.crawlerapp
from unittest import TestCase
from mock import patch, Mock
from mephistopheles.messageformat import EventDataFrame
from mephistopheles.messageformat.types import adservers as pbufs
import time
import sys


class testDeserial(TestCase):

    def generate_dummy_auction_event(self,url):
        adunitinfo = pbufs.AdUnitInfo(index_on_page=0, url=url)
        geoloc = pbufs.GeoLocation(country="DE", region="low")
        userinfo = pbufs.UserInfo(user_hash=1,
                                  ip_octets=1,
                                  geolocation=geoloc,
                                  language="en")
        auctioninfo = pbufs.AuctionInfo(timestamp=int(time.time()),
                                        user=userinfo,
                                        ad_unit=adunitinfo)
        return auctioninfo

    def setUp(self):
        pass

    @patch.object(Foo.crawler.crawlerapp.CrawlerApp,'addUrl')
    def test_check_url(self, MaddUrl):
        url_a = "http://audaxing.wordpress.com"
        dummy_event = self.generate_dummy_auction_event(url_a)
        with patch("sys.stdin") as mock_stdin:
            mock_stdin.read.return_value = dummy_event
            ca._running = True
            input_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.inputStreamThread)
            input_thread.start()
            time.sleep(0.5)
            ca._running = False
        MaddUrl.assert_called_with(url_a)

The test run output....

$ bin/tests --tests-pattern=test_deserialize
Test-module import failures:

Module: Foo.crawler.tests.test_deserialize

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jamie/svn/Foo/crawler.buildout/trunk/src/Foo.crawler/Foo/crawler/tests/test_deserialize.py", line 11, in <module>
    class testDeserial(TestCase):
  File "/home/jamie/svn/Foo/crawler.buildout/trunk/src/Foo.crawler/Foo/crawler/tests/test_deserialize.py", line 28, in testDeserial
    @patch.object(Foo.crawler.crawlerapp.CrawlerApp,'addUrl')
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'object'



Test-modules with import problems:
  Foo.crawler.tests.test_deserialize
Total: 0 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors in 0.000 seconds.