From 0b70da335690456a556afb9ff7a56dfca693b019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jeroen_decroos <jeroen.decroos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 09:07:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Make gitlab.Gitlab.from_config a classmethod

---
 gitlab/__init__.py          | 18 +++++++++---------
 gitlab/tests/test_gitlab.py | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitlab/__init__.py b/gitlab/__init__.py
index 18f9d162b..819096d9b 100644
--- a/gitlab/__init__.py
+++ b/gitlab/__init__.py
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ def api_version(self):
         """The API version used (4 only)."""
         return self._api_version
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def from_config(gitlab_id=None, config_files=None):
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, gitlab_id=None, config_files=None):
         """Create a Gitlab connection from configuration files.
 
         Args:
@@ -181,13 +181,13 @@ def from_config(gitlab_id=None, config_files=None):
         """
         config = gitlab.config.GitlabConfigParser(gitlab_id=gitlab_id,
                                                   config_files=config_files)
-        return Gitlab(config.url, private_token=config.private_token,
-                      oauth_token=config.oauth_token,
-                      ssl_verify=config.ssl_verify, timeout=config.timeout,
-                      http_username=config.http_username,
-                      http_password=config.http_password,
-                      api_version=config.api_version,
-                      per_page=config.per_page)
+        return cls(config.url, private_token=config.private_token,
+                   oauth_token=config.oauth_token,
+                   ssl_verify=config.ssl_verify, timeout=config.timeout,
+                   http_username=config.http_username,
+                   http_password=config.http_password,
+                   api_version=config.api_version,
+                   per_page=config.per_page)
 
     def auth(self):
         """Performs an authentication.
diff --git a/gitlab/tests/test_gitlab.py b/gitlab/tests/test_gitlab.py
index 5174bd23e..fddd5ed8b 100644
--- a/gitlab/tests/test_gitlab.py
+++ b/gitlab/tests/test_gitlab.py
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 
+import os
 import pickle
+import tempfile
 try:
     import unittest
 except ImportError:
@@ -34,6 +36,17 @@
 from gitlab.v4.objects import *  # noqa
 
 
+valid_config = b"""[global]
+default = one
+ssl_verify = true
+timeout = 2
+
+[one]
+url = http://one.url
+private_token = ABCDEF
+"""
+
+
 class TestSanitize(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_do_nothing(self):
         self.assertEqual(1, gitlab._sanitize(1))
@@ -536,3 +549,22 @@ def resp_get_user(url, request):
             self.assertEqual(type(user), User)
             self.assertEqual(user.name, "name")
             self.assertEqual(user.id, 1)
+
+    def _default_config(self):
+        fd, temp_path = tempfile.mkstemp()
+        os.write(fd, valid_config)
+        os.close(fd)
+        return temp_path
+
+    def test_from_config(self):
+        config_path = self._default_config()
+        gitlab.Gitlab.from_config('one', [config_path])
+        os.unlink(config_path)
+
+    def test_subclass_from_config(self):
+        class MyGitlab(gitlab.Gitlab):
+            pass
+        config_path = self._default_config()
+        gl = MyGitlab.from_config('one', [config_path])
+        self.assertEqual(type(gl).__name__, 'MyGitlab')
+        os.unlink(config_path)