How to call built in plugin alongside custom plugin with python nosetests

Question

I am trying to write a custom plugin for nosetests ( a plugin to run as a custom selector) which works fine and i can use it by calling

nose.run(plugins=[CustomSelectorPlugin()])

However i also want to run nose with the built-in xunit plugin but I am unsure as to how to do this.

I have tried

nose.main(plugins=[CustomSelectorPlugin()], argv=['--with-xunit'])

and calling my program with --with-xunit option but these do not seem to work (well, everythion runs fine but there is no nosetests.xml generated)

How do i run both my plugin and xunit pragmatically?

Thanks

Answer 1

Solved the problem

I needed to call

nose.run(addplugins=[CustomSelectorPlugin()]) 

note the addplugins (as opposed to plugins) call. This allows me to call my program with command line arg --with-xnuit. Just having plugins meant the default plugin manager was not invoked/called/was overridden.

Also I should mention to be able to specify the args in code the first arg in argv is ignored by nose so something like this should be used:

nose.run(addplugins=[CustomSelectorPlugin()], argv=['foo', '--with-xunit'])

Hope this helps future googlers