+1 a good mocked library would be awesome. Do more experienced ATS developers know of any blockers to us writing a mock library for testing?
Regards, Alan On Jan 10, 2014, at 11:08 AM, Shu Kit Chan <chanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's just unit tests for utilities and helper classes for the plugin. > I also want a stub library, too, for writing unit tests for plugin. > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:59 AM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jan 2, 2014, at 9:04 AM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 1:53 PM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 8:44 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> >> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm looking for an example of an ATS plugin that has extensive unit >> tests. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are none. >>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm having problems linking my Boost unit tests against the plugin >> library for obvious reasons, it's a module not a shared library. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I tried setting up an internal static library that the tests would >> link against but can't seem to get the object files directly included into >> the ATS plugin. >>>>>> >>>>>> There's no reason, in principle, that this would not work. For many >> plugins it would be reasonable to separate core functions from the Traffic >> Server bindings, and use a TDD approach for developing the core. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, but Autotools is getting in the way. I can't seem to get those >> core functions, which are in the static library that's shared by the plugin >> and tests, into the ATS plugin module. This is the Autotools "example" >> that I'm looking for. >>>> >>>> You should be able to build the core as an autotools convenience >> library, then link that into the test harness and the plugin. >>> >>> Yes, I agree but getting that autotools convenience library to be >> included in the plugin module is what is causing problems for me. I >> reference the convenience library in my plugin module but the object files >> do not get included within. I could make it into a shared library but that >> would make things messier, imo. >> >> I just remembered that the ESI plugin does this .... >> >> >> https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/blob/master/plugins/experimental/esi/Makefile.am >> >> J >>
