id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason
502355384,MDU6SXNzdWU1MDIzNTUzODQ=,580,Testing utilities should be available to plugins,9599,closed,0,,,5,2019-10-03T23:58:26Z,2020-02-28T07:58:46Z,2020-02-28T07:58:46Z,OWNER,,"I'm trying to write a plugin at the moment ([datasette-atom](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom)) which needs to run unit tests against a full in-memory Datasette instance, in the same way that the Datasette test suite itself works.

I got it working by creating copies of the [TestClient and TestResponse classes](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/a314b761866d250c16f1ff6dd682010cf4181eb4/tests/fixtures.py#L22-L96) within the plugin itself:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom/commit/c0e3bd9556d7b31f253a8bf666d42205cd24f4fc#diff-33337525d2d877f7cc7f33737bfd2d7b

I had to do this because those classes are in the `tests/` directory within Datasette, so they don't get included in the package that ships to PyPI.

It would be better if these classes were included in the main package in a way that made it easy for plugins to reuse them to write their own tests.",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/580/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed