Mock inner class's attributes using MagicMock - pytest

Question

Apologies for a length post. I have been trying to beat my head around reading about mock, MagicMock, and all the time getting confused. Hence, decided to write this post.
I know several questions, and pages have been written on this. But, still not able to wrap my head around this.
My Setup:
All the test code, and the 2 module files come under one "folder" mymodule
my_module_1.py file contains
class MyOuterClass(object):
MyInnerClass(object):
attribute1: str
attribute2: str
attribute3: str
def get(self) -> MyInnerClass:
'''
pseudocode
1. a call to AWS's service is made
2. the output from call in step 1 is used to set attributes of this InnerClass
3. return innerclass instance
'''
I use the OuterClass in another file(my_module_2.py), to set some values and return a string as follows:
class MyModule2():
def get_foo(self, some_boolean_predicate):
if some_boolean_predicate:
temp = my_module_1.OuterClass().get()
statement = f'''
WITH (
BAR (
FIELD_1 = '{temp.attribute1}',
FIELD_2 = '{temp.attribute2}',
FIELD_3 = '{temp.attribute3}'
)
)
'''
else:
statement = ''
return statement
I want to write the unit tests for the file my_module_2.py file, and test the function get_foo
How I am writing the tests(or planning on)
a test file by name test_my_module2.py
I started with creating a pytest.fixture for the MyOuterClass's get function as follows since I will be reusing this piece of info again in my other tests
#pytest.fixture
def mock_get(mocker: MockerFixture) -> MagicMock:
return mocker.patch.object(MyOuterClass, 'get')
Finally,
Then I proceeded to use this fixture in my test as follows:
from unittest import mock
from unittest.mock import MagicMock, Mock, patch, PropertyMock
import pytest
from pytest_mock import MockerFixture
from my_module.my_module_1 import myOuterClass
def test_should_get_from_inner_class(self, mock_get):
# mock call to get are made
output = mock_get.get
#update the values for the InnerClass's attributes here
output.attribute1.side_effect = 'attr1'
output.attribute2.side_effect = 'attr2'
output.attribute3.side_effect = 'attr3'
mock_output_str = '''
WITH (
BAR (
FIELD_1 = 'attr1',
FIELD_2 = 'attr2',
FIELD_3 = 'attr3'
)
)
'''
module2Obj = MyModule2()
response = module2Obj.get_foo(some_boolean_predicate=True)
# the following assertion passes
assert mock_get.get.called_once()
# I would like match `response to that with mock_output_str instance above
assert response == mock_output_str
But, the assertion as you might have guessed failed, and I know I am comparing completely different types, since I see
errors such as
FAILED [100%]
WITH (
BAR (
FIELD1 = '<MagicMock name='get().attr1' id='4937943120'>',
FIELD3 = '<MagicMock name='get().attr2' id='4937962976'>',
FIELD3 = '<MagicMock name='get().attr3' id='4937982928'>'
)
)
Thank you for being patient with me till here, i know its a really lengthy post, but stuck on this for a few days, ended up creating a post here.
How do i get to validate the mock's value with the mock_output_str?

Answer 1

yess! the hint was in the #gold_cy's answer. I was only calling my mock and never setting its values
this is what my test case ended up looking
mock_obj = OuterClass.InnerClass()
mock_obj.attribute1='some-1'
mock_obj.attribute2='some-2'
mock_obj.attribute3='some-3'
mock_get.return_value = mock_obj
once my mock was setup properly, then the validation became easy! Thank you!