Add an offline mock of the RSpace ELN and Inventory APIs for the test suite

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file
   `filename=`; `list_folder_tree` takes `page_size=`; new `get_workbench_by_id`; Inventory
   CSV import uses the shared session.
 - Removed a stray debug print from `InventoryClient.upload_attachment_by_global_id`.
+- Added `rspace_client/tests/mock_rspace`, an offline mock of the ELN and Inventory REST
+  endpoints the PyFilesystem classes use, shared by the unit suite. Not installed.
 
 ## Unreleased
 

rspace_client/tests/conftest.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+"""
+pytest hooks for the offline test suite.
+
+One mock RSpace server (``rspace_client/tests/mock_rspace``) serves the whole
+session. It is started here and handed to :mod:`rspace_client.tests.mock_server_case`,
+whose ``MockServerTestCase`` resets its fixtures before every test; the old
+one-server-per-class arrangement spent most of the suite's wall time in seven
+``serve_forever`` shutdowns.
+"""
+import pytest
+
+from rspace_client.tests import mock_server_case
+from rspace_client.tests.mock_rspace.server import run_in_thread
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session", autouse=True)
+def shared_mock_server():
+    server, url = run_in_thread()
+    mock_server_case.install_shared_server(server, url)
+    try:
+        yield server
+    finally:
+        mock_server_case.install_shared_server(None, None)
+        server.shutdown()
+        server.server_close()

rspace_client/tests/mock_rspace/__init__.py

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+"""
+Mock RSpace API server and a Galaxy-like harness for developing and testing the
+RSpace PyFilesystem implementations offline.
+
+See rspace_client/tests/mock_rspace/README.md for usage.
+"""