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> On Aug 23, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 08/23/2018 12:25 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> Excerpts from Eric Fried's message of 2018-08-23 09:51:21 -0500:
>>> Do you mean an actual fixture, that would be used like:
>>> 
>>>  class MyTestCase(testtools.TestCase):
>>>      def setUp(self):
>>>          self.uuids = self.useFixture(oslofx.UUIDSentinelFixture()).uuids
>>> 
>>>      def test_foo(self):
>>>          do_a_thing_with(self.uuids.foo)
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> That's... okay I guess, but the refactoring necessary to cut over to it
>>> will now entail adding 'self.' to every reference. Is there any way
>>> around that?
>> That is what I had envisioned, yes.  In the absence of a global,
>> which we do not want, what other API would you propose?
> 
> If we put it in oslotest instead, would the global still be a problem? Especially since mock has already established a pattern for this functionality?

I guess all of the people who complained so loudly about the global in oslo.config are gone?

If we don’t care about the global then we could just put the code from Eric’s threadsafe version in oslo.utils somewhere. 

Doug