Hi Drew, just FYI: Adam and I talked about this some days ago. I pointed him to the fact that you could easily convert the Haxe code to AS3 using a flag for the Haxe compiler. In case you are interested, I have uploaded the hxasm code and the as3 version here: http://www.herrodius.com/upload/hxasm.zip
@Adam: Did you make some more progress? regards, Christophe 2008/1/2, Drew Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As the author of that mock framework Adam linked to I thought I > should chip in with my thoughts on the issues that have been raised. > > Regarding having to hand code the implementation of the class you > want to mock I have found that with a couple of snippet templates for > TextMate I can write them quite quickly. > > If you are going to hand-code stubs for use in testing without using > a framework you are adding behaviour to a class which means you > should then be testing that class too. > > To ease some of the pain until we can generate mock objects from > interfaces I intend to bundle a bunch of support classes that provide > mocks for many of the core flash class (think URLLoader, > EventDispatcher, Socket, etc). Speak up if you've got suggestions for > the classes you would like to see included initially. > > I have a couple of ideas about what we would need to be able to > generate the mock classes: > > 1) Generate the .as for the mock from reflection information at > runtime, then compile the generated .as at runtime with a self-hosted > compiler (AS3 compiler in AS3) then load it via Loader.loadBytes and > flash.utils.getDefinitionByName > > 2) Write an AS3 Parser in something like Java or Ruby that would > provide access to the Abstract Syntax Tree from which we can generate > the mock class, then compile the generated .as with mxmlc along with > the test suite. > > By implementing a tool that provides the AST for an AS3 class we open > up the doors for lots of fun like generating mocks, AOP, code > mutation (think adding hooks for code coverage reporting, mutation > testing, additional metadata directives) > > There is work in the Tamarin project for a self-hosted compiler > however last I checked it wasn't far enough along for our purposes. > > The hxASM library looks interesting and could definately be an avenue > worth exploring for this. Adam, I would be interested in > collaborating on getting a port of hxASM to AS3 so that we can > generate the necessary bytecodes to create mocks from an interface at > runtime. > > cheers, > Drew > > -- Christophe Herreman http://www.herrodius.com http://www.pranaframework.org
