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[Testing] Need integration tests or higher level tests

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
fastapi, python

Research direction

Start by reproducing the return-type regression and reviewing the existing blob tests, which were the only tests that failed. Then map the proposed higher-level suite around a small simulation involving Things calling each other and communicating over HTTP. Done means the suite exercises these interactions and catches return-type failures that unit tests miss.

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Description

In playing round with return types I accidentally set all returns from ThingClient as None.

The only tests that errored were the ones for blobs. While the coverage is high, there probably needs to be another test suite with some more high level tests. Basically a simple simulation application which handles things like Things calling eachother, calling things over HTTP, something a bit more complex than in a unit test.

This will also help with checking that projects using LabThings can be typed.

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Python
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