def test_created(self): """ Check the DataStore base class gets the requested item and returns the creation timestamp that the publisher has associated with the item. """ self.assertTrue(hasattr(DataStore, 'created')) ds = DataStore() timestamp = time.time() val = { 'timestamp': timestamp } ds._get_item = MagicMock(return_value=(val, None, 0.0)) result = ds.created('foo') self.assertEqual(timestamp, result) ds._get_item.assert_called_once_with('foo')