Is there a mechanism for running single gtests that start XPCOM?
With the current gtest mechanism, "normal" gtests can't start XPCOM (NS_InitXPCOM, event loops, component manager, etc) for various reasons:
* gtests are run in parallel and XPCOM has globals and thread-locals which don't allow that kind of multithreading * XPCOM doesn't support being re-initialized after it has been shut down, and supporting that is a huge task that is unlikely to be a good idea
However, I've heard that there are some media tests which do initialize XPCOM: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/WebRTC/Testing
I am currently attempting to convert at a few C++ unit tests which start XPCOM and also end up using bits of JSAPI:
toolkit/components/places/tests/cpp/test_IHistory.cpp uses JSAPI via nsINode->nsWrapperCache->RootingAPI media/webrtc/signalingtest uses nsPIDOMWindow -> nsINode -> nsWrapperCache -> RootingAPI
I'd like to convert these to be use the gtest-libxul. Do we have a framework for gtests that start XPCOM and therefore need to be run one at a time rather than using the normal parallel-gtest mechanism?
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