Hi all,
Just a quick question, mainly aimed at Schwern since he's most familiar with
TAP::Harness, though others with thoughts should definitely chime in.
To handle streams, I am thinking of this:
my $parser = TAPx::Parser->new;
while ( defined ( my $chunk = $tap_stream->next ) ) {
my @results = $parser->parse_chunk($chunk);
# do what you will with the result objects
}
$parser->finalize;
This seems rather clean because it doesn't matter how the stream is created.
Pass chunks (usually single lines, but it doesn't have to be) to the parser and
everything is golden. Also, this means that I am not dependent on the stream
interface.
I assume it's desired to be able to view the results as they're coming in
rather than wait for the end of the stream.
The only potential problem I see with the above scenario is that the chunks
have to be "complete". In other words, if I have a "got" in one chunk, having
the "expected" in the next chunk makes it a bit more difficult to handle
(though not insurmountable). However, depending upon how buffering is handled,
I could see this condition arising.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Ovid
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