I wonder why we'd allow *any* parsing differences here? Couldn't you just assert and fail hard while you're testing against our tests and in Nightly? I imagine the differences you don't catch this way will be so subtle that crowd-sourcing is unlikely to catch them either.
--Jet On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Valentin Gosu <valentin.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > As some of you may know, Rust is approaching its 1.0 release in a couple of > weeks. One of the major goals for Rust is using a rust library in Gecko. > The specific one I'm working at the moment is adding rust-url as a safer > alternative to nsStandardURL. > > This project is still in its infancy, but we're making good progress. A WIP > patch is posted in bug 1151899, while infrastructure support for the rust > compiler is tracked in bug 1135640. > > One of the main problems in this endeavor is compatibility. It would be > best if this change wouldn't introduce any changes in the way we parse and > encode/decode URLs, however rust-url does differ a bit from Gecko's own > parser. While we can account for the differences we know of, there may be a > lot of other cases we are not aware of. I propose using our volunteer base > in trying to find more of these differences by reporting them on Nightly. > > My patch currently uses printf to note when a parsing difference occurs, or > when any of the getters (GetHost, GetPath, etc) returns a string that's > different from our native implementation. Printf might not be the best way > of logging these differences though. NSPR logging might work, or even > writing to a log file in the current directory. > > These differences are quite privacy sensitive, so an automatic reporting > tool probably wouldn't work. Has anyone done something like this before? > Would fuzzing be a good way of finding more cases? > > I'm waiting for any comments and suggestions you may have. > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
