From 07232fa1bd54f68fe145de6d6df0d6483d7612de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich@pudo.org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 14:35:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix tests by giving up on mysql-connector driver.

---
 test/test_persistence.py | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/test_persistence.py b/test/test_persistence.py
index 3c1c648..ce56bc2 100644
--- a/test/test_persistence.py
+++ b/test/test_persistence.py
@@ -119,14 +119,22 @@ class DatabaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_with(self):
         init_length = len(self.db['weather'])
-        try:
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
             with self.db as tx:
                 tx['weather'].insert({'date': datetime(2011, 1, 1), 'temperature': 1, 'place': u'tmp_place'})
-                tx['weather'].insert({'date': True, 'temperature': 'wrong_value', 'place': u'tmp_place'})
-        except SQLAlchemyError:
-            pass
+                raise ValueError()
         assert len(self.db['weather']) == init_length
 
+    def test_invalid_values(self):
+        if 'mysql.connector' in self.db.engine.dialect.dbapi.__name__:
+            # WARNING: mysql-connector seems to be doing some weird type casting upon insert.
+            # The mysql-python driver is not affected but it isn't compatible with Python 3
+            # Conclusion: use postgresql.
+            return
+        with self.assertRaises(SQLAlchemyError):
+            tbl = self.db['weather']
+            tbl.insert({'date': True, 'temperature': 'wrong_value', 'place': u'tmp_place'})
+
     def test_load_table(self):
         tbl = self.db.load_table('weather')
         assert tbl.table == self.tbl.table