The probeinterface.testing module loads probe.json.schema, which doesn’t ship with the wheel

[musicinmybrain]

The new module probeinterface.testing, which ships as part of the probeinterface wheel, loads probe.json.schema at import time, but this only works using relative paths in a git checkout; probe.json.schema doesn’t ship in the wheel at all.

Separately, probeinterface.testing imports jsonschema, which isn’t a regular dependency, only a test extra dependency. I guess that’s “more OK:”

$ python3 -m venv _e
$ . _e/bin/activate
(_e) $ pip install probeinterface
$ python3 -c 'import probeinterface.testing'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    import probeinterface.testing
  File "/home/ben/tmp/_e/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/probeinterface/testing.py", line 5, in <module>
    import jsonschema
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'jsonschema'
(_e) $ pip install probeinterface[test]
(_e) $ $ python3 -c 'import probeinterface.testing'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    import probeinterface.testing
  File "/home/ben/tmp/_e/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/probeinterface/testing.py", line 8, in <module>
    schema = json.load(open(json_schema_file, "r"))
                       ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/ben/tmp/_e/lib64/python3.13/resources/probe.json.schema'

I’m not quite sure what would make this “nicer” in the most straighforward way. If it’s feasible to move probeinterface.testing back out of probeinterface and into tests/, that would probably be best. Where it is, it looks like a public API, and that really doesn’t seem to be the intent.

[alejoe91]

Hi @musicinmybrain

I think we can ship the json.schema with the package and extend the test installation to add jsonschema without moving anything. How does that sound?

[musicinmybrain]

Hi @musicinmybrain

I think we can ship the json.schema with the package and extend the test installation to add jsonschema without moving anything. How does that sound?

Sure, that seems like a reasonable idea too. Thanks.