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We were relying heavily on NodeFactory to do some magic before instantiating the Node with rpc and daemon initialized, that meant that we'd have to replace all 3 classes when customizing the node to our needs. Moving that initialization into the node itself means that the LightningNode class now can be swapped out and customized, without having to wire everything else through.
pyln-testing: A library to write tests against c-lightning
This library implements a number of utilities that help building tests for c-lightning nodes. In particular it provides a number of pytest fixtures that allow the management of a test network of a given topology and then execute a test scenarion.
pyln-testing is used by c-lightning for its internal tests, and by the
community plugin directory to exercise the plugins.
Installation
pyln-testing is available on pip:
pip install pyln-testing
Alternatively you can also install the development version to get access to currently unreleased features by checking out the c-lightning source code and installing into your python3 environment:
git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lightning/contrib/pyln-testing
python3 setup.py develop
This will add links to the library into your environment so changing the checked out source code will also result in the environment picking up these changes. Notice however that unreleased versions may change API without warning, so test thoroughly with the released version.