functional-tests: Fix brokeness of @expectedFailureJournal decorator

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tests/functional-tests/expectedFailure.py b/tests/functional-tests/expectedFailure.py
index 289e0a9df..d3d48b468 100644
--- a/tests/functional-tests/expectedFailure.py
+++ b/tests/functional-tests/expectedFailure.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ on the files. Note that these tests are highly platform dependant.
 
 from functools import wraps
 import sys
+import unittest as ut
 
 import configuration as cfg
 
@@ -42,11 +43,6 @@ def expectedFailureJournal():
 
         @wraps(func)
         def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
-            try:
-                func(*args, **kwargs)
-            except Exception:
-                raise ut.case._ExpectedFailure(sys.exc_info())
-            raise Exception(
-                "Unexpected success. This should fail because journal is disabled")
+            ut.expectedFailure(func)
         return wrapper
     return decorator