dashboard: add doctest for magic method

circle/dashboard/views.py

@@ -174,8 +174,11 @@ class FilterMixin(object):
                      self).get_queryset().filter(**self.get_queryset_filters())
                      self).get_queryset().filter(**self.get_queryset_filters())
 
 
     def create_fake_get(self):
     def create_fake_get(self):
+        self.request.GET = self._parse_get(self.request.GET)
+
+    def _parse_get(self, GET_dict):
         """
         """
-        Updates the request's GET dict to filter the vm list
+        Returns a new dict from request's GET dict to filter the vm list
         For example: "name:xy node:1" updates the GET dict
         For example: "name:xy node:1" updates the GET dict
                      to resemble this URL ?name=xy&node=1
                      to resemble this URL ?name=xy&node=1
 
 
@@ -185,8 +188,17 @@ class FilterMixin(object):
         whitespace, the first part of this list will be the previous key's
         whitespace, the first part of this list will be the previous key's
         value, then last part of the list will be the next key.
         value, then last part of the list will be the next key.
         The final dict looks like this: {'name': xy, 'node':1}
         The final dict looks like this: {'name': xy, 'node':1}
+
+        >>> f = FilterMixin()
+        >>> f._parse_get({'s': "hello"})
+        {u'name': u'hello', s': '...'}
+        >>> f._parse_get({'s': "name:hello owner:test"})
+        {u'owner': u'test', u'name': u'hello', 's': '...'}
+        >>> f._parse_get({'s': "name:hello with whitespace node:node 3 oh"})
+        {u'node': u'node 3 oh', u'name': u'hello with whitespace', 's': '...'}
         """
         """
-        s = self.request.GET.get("s")
+        s = GET_dict.get("s")
+        fake = GET_dict.copy()
         if s:
         if s:
             s = s.split(":")
             s = s.split(":")
             if len(s) < 2:  # if there is no ':' in the string, filter by name
             if len(s) < 2:  # if there is no ':' in the string, filter by name
@@ -201,11 +213,9 @@ class FilterMixin(object):
                 got[latest] = s[-1]
                 got[latest] = s[-1]
 
 
             # generate a new GET request, that is kinda fake
             # generate a new GET request, that is kinda fake
-            fake = self.request.GET.copy()
             for k, v in got.iteritems():
             for k, v in got.iteritems():
                 fake[k] = v
                 fake[k] = v
-
-            self.request.GET = fake
+        return fake
 
 
     def create_acl_queryset(self, model):
     def create_acl_queryset(self, model):
         cleaned_data = self.search_form.cleaned_data
         cleaned_data = self.search_form.cleaned_data