How to set return value to mock object created from another mock object using unittest?

Question

from connection_util import some_engine

class RecommendConversationsUsingOldAPI(BaseResource):

    def check_entitlement(self,msg_ids,usr_id, metadata):
            conn = some_engine.connect()
            some_list = conn.execute(something)

Unittest

@patch('module1.some_engine')  
def test_some_method(self, mockEngine):
        # some code.....

I can mock some_engine

@patch('module1.some_engine')

How do set return_value for conn.execute() ?

Answer 1

Manually created Mock object can be returned for connect()

 mock_connection = Mock()
 mock_connection.execute.return_value = [1,2,3,4]

 mockEngine.connect.return_value = mock_connection