'''
Copyright (c) 2014 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.

This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html

Created on Jan 24, 2014

@author: vdemcak
'''
import unittest


class OF_TestXmlInputs_Base( unittest.TestCase ):
    """
    Base TEST class extends unittest.TestCase and
    it provides possibility to add parameters for 
    all subclasses by call a static constructor:
    
    OF_TestXmlInputs_Base.load_file_name(sub_class_name, param)
    """

    def __init__( self, methodName = 'runTest', path_to_xml = None ):
        """
        private default constructor
        """
        super( OF_TestXmlInputs_Base, self ).__init__( methodName )
        self.path_to_xml = path_to_xml

    @staticmethod
    def load_file_name( clazz, path_to_xml = None ):
        """
        static constructor for all subclasses with param
        param -> path_to_xml (default None)
        """
        testloader = unittest.TestLoader()
        testnames = testloader.getTestCaseNames( clazz )
        suite = unittest.TestSuite()
        for name in testnames:
            suite.addTest( clazz( name, path_to_xml = path_to_xml ) )
        return suite