try to fix app.config problem

doajtest/helpers.py

@@ -120,9 +120,8 @@ class DoajTestCase(TestCase):
     originals = {}
 
     @classmethod
-    def setUpClass(cls) -> None:
-        import portality.app  # noqa, needed to registing routes
-        cls.originals = patch_config(app, {
+    def create_app_patch(cls):
+        return {
             "STORE_IMPL": "portality.store.StoreLocal",
             "STORE_LOCAL_DIR": paths.rel2abs(__file__, "..", "tmp", "store", "main", cls.__name__.lower()),
             "STORE_TMP_DIR": paths.rel2abs(__file__, "..", "tmp", "store", "tmp", cls.__name__.lower()),
@@ -138,7 +137,13 @@ def setUpClass(cls) -> None:
             "FAKER_SEED": 1,
             "EVENT_SEND_FUNCTION": "portality.events.shortcircuit.send_event",
             'CMS_BUILD_ASSETS_ON_STARTUP': False
-        })
+        }
+
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls) -> None:
+        import portality.app  # noqa, needed to registing routes
+
+        cls.originals = patch_config(app, cls.create_app_patch())
 
         # some unittest will capture log for testing, therefor log level must be DEBUG
         cls.app_test.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

doajtest/selenium_helpers.py

@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ def fix_index_not_found_exception(app):
 
 
 # run doaj server in a background process
-def _run_doaj_server():
+def _run_doaj_server(app_batch):
     try:
+        patch_config(app.app, app_batch)
         app.run_server(host=DOAJ_HOST, port=DOAJ_PORT)
     except Exception as e:
         if isinstance(e, ESMappingMissingError):
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ def setUp(self):
         super().setUp()
 
         freeze_support()
-        self.doaj_process = Process(target=_run_doaj_server, daemon=True)
+        self.doaj_process = Process(target=_run_doaj_server, args=(self.create_app_patch(),), daemon=True)
         self.doaj_process.start()
 
         # prepare selenium driver