From 1bc2583de81689dae17838b59834db43c352ac67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helmut Merz <helmutm@cy55.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 14:54:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] move common test stuff to testing package

---
 scopes/api/{core => }/message.py |  2 +-
 scopes/testing.py                | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 tests/test_api.py                | 17 +++++------------
 tests/test_message.py            |  8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 rename scopes/api/{core => }/message.py (63%)
 create mode 100644 scopes/testing.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_message.py

diff --git a/scopes/api/core/message.py b/scopes/api/message.py
similarity index 63%
rename from scopes/api/core/message.py
rename to scopes/api/message.py
index bb75762..ea6a3c4 100644
--- a/scopes/api/core/message.py
+++ b/scopes/api/message.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# scopes.api.core.message
+# scopes.api.message
 
 """routes and views for Message objects"""
 
diff --git a/scopes/testing.py b/scopes/testing.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1bbe686
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scopes/testing.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# scopes.testing
+
+"""Common stuff (config, fixtures, ...) for testing"""
+import os, sys
+sys.path = [os.path.dirname(__file__)] + sys.path
+
+import config
+from scopes.storage.db import postgres 
+
+config.dbengine = 'postgresql+psycopg'
+config.dbname = 'testdb'
+config.dbuser = 'testuser'
+config.dbpassword = 'secret'
+config.dbschema = 'testing'
+config.StorageFactory = postgres.StorageFactory
+
+
diff --git a/tests/test_api.py b/tests/test_api.py
index b65e28c..619ef28 100644
--- a/tests/test_api.py
+++ b/tests/test_api.py
@@ -1,22 +1,15 @@
-# scopes.tests.test_api
+# py-scopes: tests.test_api
 
-"""Tests for the fastapi- (and asyncio-) based stuff."""
+"""Tests for the fastapi- (and asyncio-) based stuff"""
+
+from scopes import testing
 
 import os, sys
-sys.path = [os.path.dirname(__file__)] + sys.path
 
 import config
-from scopes.storage.db import postgres 
-from scopes.storage import concept, folder, message, topic, tracking
+from scopes.storage import tracking
 import transaction
 
-config.dbengine = 'postgresql+psycopg'
-config.dbname = 'testdb'
-config.dbuser = 'testuser'
-config.dbpassword = 'secret'
-config.dbschema = 'testing'
-config.StorageFactory = postgres.StorageFactory
-
 import pytest
 from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
 from httpx2 import ASGITransport, AsyncClient
diff --git a/tests/test_message.py b/tests/test_message.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21cc86f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_message.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# py-scopes: tests.test_message
+
+"""Tests for messages and related stuff"""
+
+import pytest
+
+from scopes.core.message import Message
+