[Vala] Unit Testing in Vala
There are a couple of unit testing frameworks out there for Vala. I know there a multitude of frameworks people have written themselves for themselves that aren't really published as stand alone projects. Given that I'd like to start putting some testing in a project I'm working on and I had a few questions for the audience. It appears to me that Valadate is the most mature testing platform out there. I've noticed it's hosted on Gitorious but it appears that Yorba has cloned it on their server and have made updates to it that never made it back to Gitorious. It also appears that despite hosting Valadate Yorba doesn't actually use it. * puzzled * Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Or at lest ones that have seen updates in the past 2 years? And finally, what is everyone doing for unit testing? It appears to be something a lot of projects don't really do anymore. Steven N. Oliver ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
[Vala] Need help to make binding for typedef'd pointer struct
Greetings!
Not long ago, someone made a binding for GMP
(https://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2011-August/msg00048.html)
and posted it on the wiki, but it seems to have been lost.
I'm attempting to write a new one, but came across some design difficulties.
In the original API, the custom number types are structs. To use them,
they are allocated, initialized, and passed to API functions via its
pointer.
{snip: C example}
/* declare var using mpz_t, which is typedef'd to the length-1 array
of the struct */
mpz_t num1, num2;
/* initialize */
mpz_init_set_ui(num1, 1495);
mpz_init_set_si(num2, -30);
/* do operations */
mpz_add(num2, num1, num2);
I managed to conjure a simple binding using struct to interface the
original struct, since you can't typedef a pointer struct in Vala.
But then the usage will look like this:
{snip: Vala exampe}
mpz_t num1, num2;
mpz.init_set_ui(out num1, 1495);
mpz.init_set_ui(out num2, 1495);
mpz_add(num2, num1, num2);
// or maybe: mpz_add(out num2, out num1, out num2);
If possible I'd like to avoid having to use ref/out/. A compact class
seems to be a good substitute, since they are passed by reference by
default.
The problem is, class needs a new function, which doesn't exist in
the API (because the types designed as objects).
Can I define what the new function does without having to include an
extra header file?
Regards,
A. Syukri
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[Vala] getopt
Hi everyone, I want to extract which parameters and values I have passed to my program. I used getopt, when I solved that problem in c. Is there an vala counterpart to getopt? Regards David * * this != here ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
[Vala] [vala] getopt
Hi everyone, I want to extract which parameters and values I have passed to my program. I used getopt, when I solved that problem in c. Is there an vala counterpart to getopt? Regards David * * this != here ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
Re: [Vala] getopt
If you want to get the args passed to your program, remember, its int
main(string args){}
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Re: [Vala] Need help to make binding for typedef'd pointer struct
2012/10/3 Ahmad Syukri bin Abdollah syoc...@gmail.com
Greetings!
Not long ago, someone made a binding for GMP
(https://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2011-August/msg00048.html)
and posted it on the wiki, but it seems to have been lost.
I'm attempting to write a new one, but came across some design
difficulties.
In the original API, the custom number types are structs. To use them,
they are allocated, initialized, and passed to API functions via its
pointer.
{snip: C example}
/* declare var using mpz_t, which is typedef'd to the length-1 array
of the struct */
mpz_t num1, num2;
/* initialize */
mpz_init_set_ui(num1, 1495);
mpz_init_set_si(num2, -30);
/* do operations */
mpz_add(num2, num1, num2);
I managed to conjure a simple binding using struct to interface the
original struct, since you can't typedef a pointer struct in Vala.
But then the usage will look like this:
{snip: Vala exampe}
mpz_t num1, num2;
mpz.init_set_ui(out num1, 1495);
mpz.init_set_ui(out num2, 1495);
mpz_add(num2, num1, num2);
// or maybe: mpz_add(out num2, out num1, out num2);
If possible I'd like to avoid having to use ref/out/. A compact class
seems to be a good substitute, since they are passed by reference by
default.
The problem is, class needs a new function, which doesn't exist in
the API (because the types designed as objects).
Can I define what the new function does without having to include an
extra header file?
Regards,
A. Syukri
Hi!
I think I had a similar problem to yours when writing a vapi for the
popular minizip utilities.
What they did was typedef a void pointer to an opaque type, which was
passed by value,
and it seems to me from the C code you provided that it's the same case
here as well(?).
Anyway, what I did was simply declare the type as a [SimpleType] struct (no
pun intended).
This solution isn't perfect, but it worked for me.
- Jonas
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Re: [Vala] Unit Testing in Vala
For the record, Yorba attempted to contact the original developer of Valadate and received no response. We had some testing needs awhile back, and so we forked. The work we did was not to add features, but merely to rip things out to get it to compile with the then-current version of Vala. You are correct, we're not currently using or developing Valadate. We would like it if someone stepped up to take over the project. The code is most likely suffering from bit rot and could use some attention. Unfortunately, we have our hands full with other projects and can't spend the time it would take. -- Jim On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Steven Oliver oliver.ste...@gmail.com wrote: There are a couple of unit testing frameworks out there for Vala. I know there a multitude of frameworks people have written themselves for themselves that aren't really published as stand alone projects. Given that I'd like to start putting some testing in a project I'm working on and I had a few questions for the audience. It appears to me that Valadate is the most mature testing platform out there. I've noticed it's hosted on Gitorious but it appears that Yorba has cloned it on their server and have made updates to it that never made it back to Gitorious. It also appears that despite hosting Valadate Yorba doesn't actually use it. * puzzled * Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Or at lest ones that have seen updates in the past 2 years? And finally, what is everyone doing for unit testing? It appears to be something a lot of projects don't really do anymore. Steven N. Oliver ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
Re: [Vala] Unit Testing in Vala
I am sorry if I made it sound like you guys had done something wrong. That was not my intention! Is there a reason you're not currently using it, even if you aren't further developing it? Steven N. Oliver On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Jim Nelson j...@yorba.org wrote: For the record, Yorba attempted to contact the original developer of Valadate and received no response. We had some testing needs awhile back, and so we forked. The work we did was not to add features, but merely to rip things out to get it to compile with the then-current version of Vala. You are correct, we're not currently using or developing Valadate. We would like it if someone stepped up to take over the project. The code is most likely suffering from bit rot and could use some attention. Unfortunately, we have our hands full with other projects and can't spend the time it would take. -- Jim On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Steven Oliver oliver.ste...@gmail.com wrote: There are a couple of unit testing frameworks out there for Vala. I know there a multitude of frameworks people have written themselves for themselves that aren't really published as stand alone projects. Given that I'd like to start putting some testing in a project I'm working on and I had a few questions for the audience. It appears to me that Valadate is the most mature testing platform out there. I've noticed it's hosted on Gitorious but it appears that Yorba has cloned it on their server and have made updates to it that never made it back to Gitorious. It also appears that despite hosting Valadate Yorba doesn't actually use it. * puzzled * Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Or at lest ones that have seen updates in the past 2 years? And finally, what is everyone doing for unit testing? It appears to be something a lot of projects don't really do anymore. Steven N. Oliver ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
Re: [Vala] Unit Testing in Vala
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 09:49 -0400, Steven Oliver wrote: There are a couple of unit testing frameworks out there for Vala. I know there a multitude of frameworks people have written themselves for themselves that aren't really published as stand alone projects. Given that I'd like to start putting some testing in a project I'm working on and I had a few questions for the audience. It appears to me that Valadate is the most mature testing platform out there. I've noticed it's hosted on Gitorious but it appears that Yorba has cloned it on their server and have made updates to it that never made it back to Gitorious. It also appears that despite hosting Valadate Yorba doesn't actually use it. * puzzled * Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Or at lest ones that have seen updates in the past 2 years? And finally, what is everyone doing for unit testing? It appears to be something a lot of projects don't really do anymore. All of the unit testing projects people have written in Vala which I'm aware of are now unmaintained. I think most Vala projects which have unit tests simply use the testing framework built into GLib. http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Testing.html http://valadoc.org/glib-2.0/GLib.Test.html -Evan ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
Re: [Vala] getopt
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 14:18 +0200, David Boesner wrote: Hi everyone, I want to extract which parameters and values I have passed to my program. I used getopt, when I solved that problem in c. Is there an vala counterpart to getopt? You probably want the GLib.Option* stuff. It is a bit tricky to use from Vala, but you can use valac as an example: http://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/tree/compiler/valacompiler.vala Documentation: http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Commandline-option-parser.html http://valadoc.org/glib-2.0/GLib.OptionContext.html -Evan ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
Re: [Vala] Unit Testing in Vala
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Steven Oliver oliver.ste...@gmail.com wrote: I am sorry if I made it sound like you guys had done something wrong. That was not my intention! No problem. No offense was taken. Is there a reason you're not currently using it, even if you aren't further developing it? Unit testing never became a part of the Yorba methodology. I know that's controversial to some, but with our resources, we've elected to keep them on features and bug fixes. I do think it's something we're going to pursue (gradually) in the case of Geary, as it has to interoperate with such a variety of mail servers and services, it's important we know we haven't broke something. -- Jim___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
