--- Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Now, one more feature for someone to add, which is a
> variant of what we
> added to smartfrog last week.
>
> 1. In junit tests, you can reference the Java string
> in the java code,
> so your tests dont break if the message changes.
>
> 2. If you test in a higher level framework (antunit,
> sf test compounds),
> you cant do that, so you copy and paste the string
> in.
>
> 3. which is very brittle.
>
> Our solution was to add a new reference, so we can
> extract text from a
> java static member
>
> testBadHost extends SSHTestExpectsFailure {
>
> action:host="missing.example.org";
>
> expectedText CONSTANT
> "org.smartfrog.services.ssh.sshExec.ERROR_NO_HOST";
>
> }
>
>
> you end up being immune to string changes, only to
> moved constants and
> people moving to fancy formatted strings.
>
> seems to me, we could do the same with an ant
> resource, one that returns
> the toString value of a resource as its contents.
toString value of a resource? Or were you trying to
say a "constant" resource would basically be the
toString of some constant (i.e. public static final
member), usually a String itself?
> then we enhance
> antunit to have a <resourceeuqals> assertion that
> compares two resources
> (we have something like this, right?), and we can
> just search for the
> specific resource in text, error logs,etc.
>
We have a resourcesmatch condition; we could certainly
complement with a resourcecontains condition or some
such. Would that suffice?
-Matt
>
>
> --
> Steve Loughran
> http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5
> Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/
>
>
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