I've given some inline comments in the patch. The ConfigManager looks too simple perhaps because it's a WIP? At least the goals as you've written in your docstring seem to talk about more than what's provided in the module.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:00:14PM -0000, Santhosh Edukulla wrote: > ------- > > Added Configuration Support to Marvin. > > 1. It provides the basic configuration facilities to marvin. > How will this be different from the current configGenerator module? The configGenerator could read and write a structured deployment configuration. Is the goal of this configGenerator different? > 2. User can just add configuration files for his tests, deployment > etc, under one config folder before running their tests. > cs/tools/marvin/marvin/config. This seems restrictive because previously one could have their configs placed anywhere. what would be the advantage of placing all configs in tools/marvin/marvin/config? When packaged and deployed this path is going to change to /usr/local/lib/python/site-packages/marvin/config. Do we want that? > They can remove all hard coded values from code and separate > it out as config at this location. How would the ConfigParser know where to find a specific section and at what depth? Is there a structure? Or do you leave that up to the test author? I'd rather not do the latter as things go wild with too many different ways to do the same thing. > Either add this to the existing setup.cfg as separate > section > or add new configuration. > 3. This will thus removes hard coded tests and separate > data from tests. Really? I think a lot of data is not specific to deployment configuration today in tests. If we unify all data into the deployment json it's going to become a mess to manage, edit and control when running tests. > > 4. This API is provided as an additional facility under > cloudstackTestClient and users can get the > configuration object as similar to apiclient,dbconnection > etc to drive their test. marvinPlugin.py,L#158 - the config is already injected into each test. I like it that it's part of the testClient, wil you be providing setter properties to it if it's part of the testClient via ConfigManager. Test case authors might be tempted to change configuration on the fly which might affect downstream tests in the same suite? > > 5. They just add their configuration for a test, > setup etc,at one single place under configuration dir > and use "getConfigParser" API of cloudstackTestClient > It will give them "configObj".They can either pass their own > config file for parsing to "getConfig" or it will use > default config file @ config/setup.cfg. > 6. They will then get the dictionary of parsed > configuration and can use it further to drive their tests or > config drive > 7. Test features, can drive their setups thus removing hard coded > values. Configuration default file will be under config and as > setup.cfg. > 8. Users can use their own configuration file passed to > "getConfig" API,once configObj is returned. > > Another such case where we are using sed or bash script is in between a > build run for replacing hard coded ldap ip for region\setup specific. We can > now change all parameters before run under configuration, the test features > will use configuration object and thus values, rather hard coded strings > which avoids replacement through shell script. > > Also, did few naming convention changes. Its better to follow uniform naming > conventions. Currently, wherever iam seeing a specific notation not followed. > We are incorporating those changes. > > ToDo: > clean up of current config at places, making configuration required for > marvin\tests unified and available at one place and clean up of files\code > related to it. > > > Diffs > ----- > > tools/marvin/marvin/cloudstackTestClient.py be93f35 > tools/marvin/marvin/config/setup.cfg PRE-CREATION > tools/marvin/marvin/configGenerator.py 0cfad30 > tools/marvin/marvin/integration/lib/utils.py 7d662af > > Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/15021/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > Basic check to retrieve configuration values is done. > > > Thanks, > > Santhosh Edukulla > -- Prasanna., ------------------------ Powered by BigRock.com
