Make awx/main/tests/live dramatically faster (#15780)

* Make awx/main/tests/live dramatically faster

* Add new setting to exclude list

awx/main/dispatch/publish.py

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 from uuid import uuid4
 
 from django_guid import get_guid
+from django.conf import settings
 
 from . import pg_bus_conn
-from awx.main.utils import is_testing
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('awx.main.dispatch')
 
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def apply_async(cls, args=None, kwargs=None, queue=None, uuid=None, **kw):
                 obj = cls.get_async_body(args=args, kwargs=kwargs, uuid=uuid, **kw)
                 if callable(queue):
                     queue = queue()
-                if not is_testing():
+                if not settings.DISPATCHER_MOCK_PUBLISH:
                     with pg_bus_conn() as conn:
                         conn.notify(queue, json.dumps(obj))
                 return (obj, queue)

awx/main/tests/settings_for_test.py

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 # Some things make decisions based on settings.SETTINGS_MODULE, so this is done for that
 SETTINGS_MODULE = 'awx.settings.development'
 
+# Turn off task submission, because sqlite3 does not have pg_notify
+DISPATCHER_MOCK_PUBLISH = True
+
 # Use SQLite for unit tests instead of PostgreSQL.  If the lines below are
 # commented out, Django will create the test_awx-dev database in PostgreSQL to
 # run unit tests.

awx/main/tests/unit/test_settings.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     'CACHES',
     'DEBUG',
     'NAMED_URL_GRAPH',
+    'DISPATCHER_MOCK_PUBLISH',
 )
 
 

awx/settings/defaults.py

@@ -423,6 +423,11 @@
 # Amount of time dispatcher will try to reconnect to database for jobs and consuming new work
 DISPATCHER_DB_DOWNTIME_TOLERANCE = 40
 
+# If you set this, nothing will ever be sent to pg_notify
+# this is not practical to use, although periodic schedules may still run slugish but functional tasks
+# sqlite3 based tests will use this
+DISPATCHER_MOCK_PUBLISH = False
+
 BROKER_URL = 'unix:///var/run/redis/redis.sock'
 CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
     'tower_scheduler': {'task': 'awx.main.tasks.system.awx_periodic_scheduler', 'schedule': timedelta(seconds=30), 'options': {'expires': 20}},