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Internals

Welcome to the developer documentation for pyatv, i.e. the documentation explaining how pyatv works (internally) and how to extend it. This section used to reside in the GitHub wiki, but has moved to the general documentation for greater availability. It is still under heavy development, so beware of missing and/or outdated content as it is migrated from the wiki.

Setting up a New Environment

Linux/macOS/*NIX

You can run the script scripts/setup_dev_env.sh to set up a complete development environment. It will make sure that everything works as expected by running chickn, building documentation (with docker), etc.

$ ./scripts/setup_dev_env.sh
$ ./scripts/chickn.py

Windows

There’s no helper script for windows, but you can get started manually like this:

$ git clone https://github.com/postlund/pyatv.git
$ cd pyatv
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/Scripts/activate
$ python setup.py develop
$ pip install pyyaml -r requirements/requirements_test.txt -r requirements/requirements_docs.txt
$ python scripts/chickn.py

Testing Changes

If you followed the instructions above, then pyatv will be installed as “develop”. This means that you can keep doing updates without having to do python setup.py install between changes.

Testing with chickn

To test everything, just run ./scripts/chickn.py:

$ ./scripts/chickn.py

This will make sure that tests pass, you have followed coding guidelines (pylint, flake8, etc), verify protobuf messages and generate coverage data. chickn is developed for pyatv and the documentation for it is here. The configuration file is here

You can run steps individually as well:

What Command
tests ./scripts/chickn.py pytest
pylint ./scripts/chickn.py pylint
protobuf ./scripts/chickn.py protobuf
api ./scripts/chickn.py api

All available steps can be listed with ./scripts/chickn.py -l:

$ ./scripts/chickn.py -l
clean, fixup, pylint, api, protobuf, flake8, black, pydocstyle, isort, cs_docs, cs_code, typing, pytest, report, dist

The fixup will run black and isort to clean up basic mistakes before running rest of the commands. So it can be convenient to enable that step with the fixup tag:

./scripts/chickn.py -t fixup

Generally, chickn will install the latest version of all dependencies. There’s however a wish to verify that everything works the lowest version that pyatv supports. This is denoted as “regression” in GitHub actions. These versions are listed in base_versions.txt and can be manually overridden when needed:

$ ./scripts/chickn.py -v requirements_file=base_versions.txt
2021-10-24 11:16:19 [INFO] Installing dependencies
2021-10-24 11:16:19 [INFO] Re-installing packages with mismatching versions: aiohttp==3.1.0 (3.7.4), bitarray==2.1.2 (2.3.4), cryptography==2.6 (35.0.0), netifaces==0.10.0 (0.11.0), protobuf==3.18.0 (3.19.0), srptools==0.2.0 (1.0.1), zeroconf==0.28.2 (0.36.8)
...

You generally do not need to do this yourself as it is tested automatically by GitHub Actions.

Updating protobuf Definitions

If you have made changes to the protobuf messages in pyatv/mrp/protobuf, you can make sure everything is updated by running:

$ ./scripts/protobuf.py --download generate

See Protobuf for more details.

Running Tests

Recommended way to run unit tests:

$ pytest --log-level=debug --disable-warnings
$ ./scripts/chickn.py pytests  # Can be run via chickn

Warnings are disabled because of deprecated loop argument in lots of places. This flag will be lifted eventually. See Testing for details regarding tests.

Re-formatting code

All python code is formatted using black, so you don’t have to care about how the code looks. Just let black take care of it:

$ black .
All done! ✨ 🍰 ✨
77 files left unchanged.

Code formatting is checked by chickn, so it’s not possible to check in code if it doesn’t comply with black.

Documentation

NB: This step currently requires docker and is only tested on Linux!

To serve a local running web server that performs incremental updates of the documentation, run:

$ ./scripts/build_doc.sh

Navigate to http://localhost:4000 to see the result.

The cs_docs step (./scripts/chickn.py cs_docs) will do basic spell checking of the documentation using codespell.

Cheat Sheet

Here are a few convenient commands in short form:

Command What
pytest –disable-warnings –log-level=debug -k XXX Run tests matching XXX
black . Re-format code with black
./scripts/protobuf.py –download generate Update protobuf definitions
./scripts/build_doc.sh Serve web server with documentation at http://127.0.0.1:4000
./scripts/api.sh generate Update generate API documentation in docs/api
./scripts/features.sh Generate pyatv.const.FeatureName (you need to copy-paste it) and print next free index
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