On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 13:08:46 -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 16:21 -0400, Jason Merrill wrote: > > David Malcolm would probably know best about JSON wrangling. > > Unfortunately our JSON output doesn't make any guarantees about the > ordering of keys within an object, so the precise textual output > changes from run to run. I've coped with that in my test cases by > limiting myself to simple regexes of fragments of the JSON output. > > Martin Liska [CCed] went much further in > 4e275dccfc2467b3fe39012a3dd2a80bac257dd0 by adding a run-gcov-pytest > DejaGnu directive, allowing for test cases for gcov to be written in > Python, which can thus test much more interesting assertions about the > generated JSON.
Ok, if Python is acceptable, I'll use its stdlib to do "fancy" things. Part of this is because I want to assert that unnecessary fields don't exist and that sounds…unlikely to be possible in any maintainable way (assuming it is possible) with regexen. `jq` could help immensely, but that is probably a bridge too far :) . Thanks, --Ben
