Eventually matcher can't handle the Raises matcher

[Leo Arias]

When we use Eventually in combination with the Raises matcher, the exception thrown is not caught.

>>> from autopilot.matchers import Eventually
>>> from testtools.matchers import raises
>>> matcher = Eventually(raises(RuntimeError("Hello")))
>>> def bad_fn():
... raise RuntimeError("Hello")
...
>>> bad_fn()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in bad_fn
RuntimeError: Hello
>>> matcher.match(bad_fn)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/matchers/__init__.py", line 109, in match
    wait_fun(self.matcher, self.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/matchers/__init__.py", line 125, in _callable_wait_for
    new_value = refresh_fn()
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in bad_fn
RuntimeError: Hello

[Thomi Richards (thomir-deactivatedaccount)]

This is a bug in autopilot. The root problem is that we allow people to pass in a callable method to assertThat, like so:

self.assertThat(lambda: self.get_thing(1, 2, 3), Eventually(Equals('something')))

The Eventually matcher breaks the behavior defined in testtools - it calls the matchee when it should instead pass it to the underlying matcher.

I think we need to figure out how to fix this. Off the top of my head, there's no easy solution. Need to think about this some more. Suggestions welcome;

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

I'm out of ideas. For now, I won't feel bad if we just document that Eventually is not compatible with raises.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopilot - 1.4+14.04.20140212-0ubuntu1

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autopilot (1.4+14.04.20140212-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ CI bot ]
  * Resync trunk

  [ Christopher Lee ]
  * Deprecating the use of AutopilotTestCase.pick_app_launcher
  * Fix a regression in the "autopilot launch" command which meant that
    application arguments were taken as the application to launch. (LP:
    #1275913)

  [ Thomi Richards ]
  * Remove ibus.py from autopilot, as it should live in lp:unity. (LP:
    #1210661)
  * Add unit tests to the autopilot.run module.
  * Refactor parts of the 'autopilot.run' module, adding unit tests and
    simplifying the code along the way.
  * Fix docs WRT Eventually matcher's interaction with Raises() matcher.
    (LP: #1244490)
  * Get display resolution using fbset, falling back to hard coded
    values based on image codename on phablet devices.
  * Fix functional tests that started failing when window-mocker
    changed. (LP: #1278187)
  * Add unit tests for missing coverage on code that picks device
    backends at runtime.
  * Fix a bug where autopilot didn't do the right thing with non-unicode
    valid bytestrings. (LP: #1278272)
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