Hey guys, I'm really interested in this stuff as well, if there's an off-list discussion going on, can I get in on it? :)
Cheers, -Josh On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Christophe Herreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > has anyone made any progress on this? > > regards, > Christophe > > 2008/1/6, aduston1976 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi, Sorry for being out of the conversation for a few days. >> >> I ran into a problem while trying to do this using hxasm. If I write >> out the bytecode for a class definition to a ByteArray, and the class >> inherits from a custom class that is part of my swf rather than a >> standard class like Object, then Loader#loadBytes will throw an >> exception indicating that the class couldn't be found. I couldn't >> overcome this behavior no matter what LoaderContext I passed to the >> loadBytes method. I don't know enough about linking in AS3 to explain >> what is going on behind the scenes here, though I'm sure that some >> Adobe employees would expect this behavior and could explain the >> reason for it very easily To make the behavior more concrete, I would >> be happy to share my code with you folks. >> >> Drew, I will message you offline. I am very happy to see that other >> people are interested in working on this problem also. The Metal >> Hurlant blog post looks potentially promising. >> >> Adam >> >> --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Drew >> Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Christophe, >> > >> > Ohh neatness! Thanks for the heads up, I had no idea Haxe had that >> > feature. >> > >> > I'm going to spend some time on this tonight & tomorrow. >> > >> > cheers, >> > Drew >> > >> > >> > On 03/01/2008, at 9:53 PM, Christophe Herreman wrote: >> > >> > > 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 >> > > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > -- > Christophe Herreman > http://www.herrodius.com > http://www.pranaframework.org > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
