We need to talk to the project steering committee on this one (in tomorrows IRC meeting?) since we are talking about changing the build system. I am way on a training course and cannot attend ... can you either attend; or we can start up a vote on email here.
The reason for the connection() not being considered fatal is because sometimes servers are down; in the past we had the build fail when ever some random server on the Internet is busted - which was not cool. As I understand it you expecting people that run online tests to provide their own fixtures; and thus it there own problem if the server is down? For me I am thinking about the various WMS Servers that we run against; these ones are not controlled by a fixture file (and I do not want the build broken if I can simply not connect). So it looks like we are trying to handle two forms of online tests? Jody > Jody Garnett wrote: >> Ben can you write up something sane and we can review the proposal in >> tomorrows IRC meeting? Either a Jira as you propose; > > Jody, I have created a patch and attached it to this Jira issue: > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-1951 > > Please let me know if this is enough. > >> or a policy change for the developers guide if you want all supported >> modules to behave in the same way. > > docs.codehaus.org is down for maintenance. I do not know the policy. I > just recommend that unit tests not swallow exceptions without good > reason. > >> Cory Horner started looking at this issue before he left Refractions; >> perhaps you can pick up where he left off? >> My understanding is that the first connection failure should log the >> exception? > > At the moment, it just calls Throwable.printStackTrace(), which will > be lost in the storm. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
