test: connection leak test test_discovery_http_is_closed is shadowed and syntactically invalid
Author: CapstanCreated May 31, 2026Updated May 31, 2026
Environment details
- OS type and version: Linux (gLinux / Debian based)
- Python version:
3.13.12(also affects all supported Python versions3.10+) - pip version:
26.0.1 google-api-python-clientversion:2.197.0(at commit6e471c075039dfef24e28d11658e03d5c949c7c3)
Steps to reproduce
- Look at
tests/test_discovery.pyonmain. Note that there are two separate definitions forclass Discovery(unittest.TestCase)(one at line 498 and one at line 1566). - In Python, defining a class twice in the same module causes the second definition to silently overwrite the first. This means the first
Discoveryclass—which contains the test casetest_discovery_http_is_closed—is completely dead code and is never executed bypytest. - Attempting to manually extract and execute this test case crashes immediately because
HttpMock.close()is a regular function, but the test tries to callassert_called_once()on it.
Code example
The shadowed class in tests/test_discovery.py contains this test definition:
class Discovery(unittest.TestCase):
def test_discovery_http_is_closed(self):
http = HttpMock(datafile("malformed.json"), {"status": "200"})
# build() is called without passing the 'http' mock client!
service = build("plus", "v1", credentials=mock.sentinel.credentials)
# Fails: HttpMock.close is a standard method, not a mock object
http.close.assert_called_once()Historical Context
This bug was introduced in September 2020 by commit 98888dadf ("fix: add method to close httplib2 connections (#1038)").
That commit added test_discovery_http_is_closed by declaring a new class Discovery(unittest.TestCase) block near the top of the file, without realizing that a class Discovery(unittest.TestCase) block was already defined and active near the bottom of the file (which immediately shadowed the new test).
The Proposed Solution
- Delete the duplicate class definition at line 498.
- Restore
test_discovery_http_is_closedinside the activeDiscoveryclass (at line 1566). - Correct the test case to use standard
unittest.mock.patchonhttplib2.Httpto verify that the temporary HTTP client created bybuild()to fetch the discovery document is safely closed after initialization completes, preventing connection/socket leaks.
@mock.patch("httplib2.Http")
def test_discovery_http_is_closed(self, mock_http_class):
mock_http = mock_http_class.return_value
mock_http.request.return_value = (
httplib2.Response({"status": "200"}),
read_datafile("plus.json"),
)
service = build("plus", "v1", static_discovery=False)
mock_http.close.assert_called_once()Stack trace
If you isolate the legacy test case and run it, it crashes immediately with an AttributeError:
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'assert_called_once'Source: googleapis/google-api-python-client