On 2019.07.25 09:14, Junio C Hamano wrote: > SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> writes: > > >> I would appreciate any feedback on better ways to integrate the > >> validator into the CI suite. > > > > How about adding a test script dedicated to JSON schema validation, > > which runs only as many git commands as needed to cover all trace2 > > events. > > Sensible, but might be hard to arrange, as the trace2 annotations on > codepaths are not frozen. > > I wonder if these schema definitions can somehow be read in reverse > by machine to automatically generate helper functions that would by > definition produce schema-valid json objects, and the current > callers of trace2_*() that logs stuff can be updated to call them? > That way, we'll automatically and always be producing valid output, > or am I dreaming?
In that case, how would you feel about having a protobuf writer, perhaps using Nano-PB[1]? It would handle code generation, and we could add a new GIT_TRACE2_PB trace target to use the generated code. [1]: https://jpa.kapsi.fi/nanopb/
