diff -r 058bb3dc685f -r 0b59724cb3f2 cubicweb/sobjects/test/unittest_notification.py
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+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+# copyright 2003-2014 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+#
+# This file is part of CubicWeb.
+#
+# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+# details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
+# with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from socket import gethostname
+
+from logilab.common.testlib import unittest_main, TestCase
+from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC, MAILBOX
+
+from cubicweb.mail import construct_message_id, parse_message_id
+
+class MessageIdTC(TestCase):
+    def test_base(self):
+        msgid1 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21)
+        msgid2 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21)
+        self.assertNotEqual(msgid1, msgid2)
+        self.assertNotIn('&', msgid1)
+        self.assertNotIn('=', msgid1)
+        self.assertNotIn('/', msgid1)
+        self.assertNotIn('+', msgid1)
+        values = parse_message_id(msgid1, 'testapp')
+        self.assertTrue(values)
+        # parse_message_id should work with or without surrounding <>
+        self.assertEqual(values, parse_message_id(msgid1[1:-1], 'testapp'))
+        self.assertEqual(values['eid'], '21')
+        self.assertIn('timestamp', values)
+        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id(msgid1[1:-1], 'anotherapp'), None)
+
+    def test_notimestamp(self):
+        msgid1 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21, False)
+        msgid2 = construct_message_id('testapp', 21, False)
+        values = parse_message_id(msgid1, 'testapp')
+        self.assertEqual(values, {'eid': '21'})
+
+    def test_parse_message_doesnt_raise(self):
+        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id('oijioj@bla.bla', 'tesapp'), None)
+        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id('oijioj@bla', 'tesapp'), None)
+        self.assertEqual(parse_message_id('oijioj', 'tesapp'), None)
+
+
+    def test_nonregr_empty_message_id(self):
+        for eid in (1, 12, 123, 1234):
+            msgid1 = construct_message_id('testapp', eid, 12)
+            self.assertNotEqual(msgid1, '<@testapp.%s>' % gethostname())
+
+class NotificationTC(CubicWebTC):
+
+    def test_recipients_finder(self):
+        with self.admin_access.web_request() as req:
+            urset = req.execute('CWUser X WHERE X login "admin"')
+            req.execute('INSERT EmailAddress X: X address "admin@logilab.fr", U primary_email X '
+                        'WHERE U eid %(x)s', {'x': urset[0][0]})
+            req.execute('INSERT CWProperty X: X pkey "ui.language", X value "fr", X for_user U '
+                        'WHERE U eid %(x)s', {'x': urset[0][0]})
+            req.cnx.commit() # commit so that admin get its properties updated
+            finder = self.vreg['components'].select('recipients_finder',
+                                                    req, rset=urset)
+            self.set_option('default-recipients-mode', 'none')
+            self.assertEqual(finder.recipients(), [])
+            self.set_option('default-recipients-mode', 'users')
+            self.assertEqual(finder.recipients(), [(u'admin@logilab.fr', 'fr')])
+            self.set_option('default-recipients-mode', 'default-dest-addrs')
+            self.set_option('default-dest-addrs', 'abcd@logilab.fr, efgh@logilab.fr')
+            self.assertEqual(list(finder.recipients()), [('abcd@logilab.fr', 'en'), ('efgh@logilab.fr', 'en')])
+
+    def test_status_change_view(self):
+        with self.admin_access.web_request() as req:
+            u = self.create_user(req, 'toto')
+            iwfable = u.cw_adapt_to('IWorkflowable')
+            iwfable.fire_transition('deactivate', comment=u'yeah')
+            self.assertFalse(MAILBOX)
+            req.cnx.commit()
+            self.assertEqual(len(MAILBOX), 1)
+            email = MAILBOX[0]
+            self.assertEqual(email.content,
+                             '''
+admin changed status from <activated> to <deactivated> for entity
+'toto'
+
+yeah
+
+url: http://testing.fr/cubicweb/cwuser/toto
+''')
+            self.assertEqual(email.subject,
+                             'status changed CWUser #%s (admin)' % u.eid)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest_main()