On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Following the numerous database related issues that have/are delayed/ing > the 3.5.1 release and the 4.0 release, and seing how it could be long and > annoying to put multi-database tests in place, and the hard work Sorin has > done in testing these issues again and again, I have taken a couple of hour > to write a decent bash script. > Here is an excerpt of the usage message of my script: > > This script can do the following steps easily to help you testing xwiki > distribution: > - Download a distribution package, either release or snapshot (using > mysql/jetty distribution). > - Deploy that package, and configure it for a requested database. > - Create the needed database. > - Import a database dump, previously exported with this same tool. > - Launch the configured XWiki with Jetty. > - Backup the database after XWiki shutdown. > All operations could be done in a multiuser environment, using common > databases, without conflict. > > You may start using it as easy as "xwiktest -v 3.5 -d oracle -w" to have a > XWiki release 3.5 downloaded and run with oracle and non-conflicting ports > and database. > Full options are listed at the end of this thread for the interested. > > I really hope this script could help in testing more often any changes that > may have consequences between versions, or may cause incompatibilities with > some databases. It would be nice if a well connected VM (the one from Sorin > has all DBs well configured but is badly connected and downloading is > really slow :( ) could be available to all committers, avoiding each one to > have to setup each database locally. > > If you find it useful, I will maintain this script as much as possible, and > improve it further. I have already some idea like: > - automatically import a given XAR > - check logs, terminate and report issue automatically (to integrate with > Jenkins?) > - allow starting multiple version one after each others, testing migration > in one run > ... > This is already more than a simple script (~500 lines), and well documented. > > However, I do not found a good place to put such script in GitHub. IMO, > this script is like release scripts, it will be maintained by the dev team, > and it could became essentiel to the project, and I have conform as much as > a bash script could to our coding practices. Therefore I do not think that > putting it in xwiki-contrib is right. Release scripts should not even be > there, and need a place in a xwiki repositories IMO. > > These are scripts that are never released nor compile or what ever. We have > already something similar in xwiki repositories: xwiki-debug-eclipse > I do not think it is nice to multiply repositories in xwiki, but there is a > need for unreleased but maintained codes like these. > > I proposed that we create a new repository in XWiki to contains such codes, > and to put/move in it: > - xwiki-debug-eclipse > - xwiki-release-tools (for release scripts) > - xwiki-testing-tools (for the above script) > > We may call this repository: > - xwiki-tools > - xwiki-utils > - xwiki-dev-tools > ...
+1 for xwiki-dev-tools > > WDYT ? > > > > -- > Denis Gervalle > SOFTEC sa - CEO > eGuilde sarl - CTO > > As promised for the curious, the options of my testing script: > > Usage: xwikitest [OPTIONS] > > Options: > -b backup.sql Backup database to the given file (or folder for > oracle) after shutdown. > -B backup.sql Backup current database to the given file, same as -b > -z -k -n > -d database Choose a database > (mysql-myisam,mysql-innodb,psql,oracle,hsqldb). Current is mysql-innodb. > -e distribution Choose a distribution (enterprise or manager). > Current is manager. > -i dump.sql Import the given sql dump in the database before > startup. > -I dump.sql Import the given sql dump in the database without > running, same as -i -z -n > -h Display this usage message. At the end, it shows your > current arguments and alone the defaults. > -k Do not clean the database before startup. > -n Do not start XWiki. > -p port Port for Jetty listening. Current is 7581. > -r snapshot Use given snapshot (ie: 20120410.161114-97). Default > to use release. > -s dbsuffix Database suffix for test isolation. Current is DenisG. > -t port Port for Jetty termination. Current is 7501. > -v version Choose a XWiki version. Current is 4.1. > -w Download from maven.xwiki.org. Default is to search > current folder. > -z Do not redeploy and reconfigure (use with care). > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
