set TEST_WHOIS_PYTHON to path so we can switch the type of testing later

Author: rl-devops

test.sh

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #! /usr/bin/bash
 
 # signal whois module that we are testing, this reads data from testdata/<domain>/in
-export TEST_WHOIS_PYTHON="1"
-
-TestDataDir="./testdata"
+TestDataDir=$(realpath ./testdata)
+export TEST_WHOIS_PYTHON="$TestDataDir"
 
 get_testdomains()
 {

whois/_1_query.py

@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ def testWhoisPythonFromStaticTestData(
     verbose: bool = False,
 ) -> str:
     domain = ".".join(dl)
-
-    pathToTestFile = f"./testdata/{domain}/input"
+    testDir = os.getenv("TEST_WHOIS_PYTHON")
+    pathToTestFile = f"{testDir}/{domain}/input"
     if os.path.exists(pathToTestFile):
         with open(pathToTestFile, mode="rb") as f:  # switch to binary mode as that is what Popen uses
             # make sure the data is treated exactly the same as the output of Popen