Using PythonTestController from another extension

[MathisFederico]

Hi ! Thank you for the great work !

Is it possible to gather the tests data and run tests from another extension ?
For each editor line, I would like to know the list of tests that executed the line, much like coverage but for each single test separately. And I would like to run specific tests, for example only the ones that run a specific line when the line is modified.

It seems there is no testing member in the exports API, but I'm still asking to be sure there is no workaround to access PythonTestController that seems to have this data:

Running:

Gives:

[brettcannon]

None of the testing information is exposed via the API. We have actually been rewriting all the test code and so it hasn't been stable enough to consider adding to our public API. I also don't know if the usefulness of that information is broad enough to warrant exposing it via an API and thus having to maintain it indefinitely. But feel free to open a feature request for this and we can talk it over as a team.

I will also say our test gathering isn't magical in the sense that others could probably replicate/copy it.

[MathisFederico]

Thank you for your answer.

I perfectly understand not exposing it in that case.
I still would like very much to be able to discover, run and have coverage of tests without having to redo work that you have already done (in a better way that I ever could).

Do you have a rough idea of what would be the minimal things to copy / use ?
I guess I would have to a least get the current environment from the API but then I'm not sure where to start ...

Any advice would be much appreciated !

[brettcannon]

All of our testing code is in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/tree/main/src/client/testing . If you have specifically questions then @eleanorjboyd can probably answer them here.