On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 09:05:48PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >                                Add two additional helpers,
> > test_oid_cache, which can be used to load data for test_oid from
> > standard input, and test_oid_init, which can be used to load certain
> > fixed values from lookup charts.  Check that these functions work in
> > t0000, as the rest of the testsuite will soon come to depend on them.
> >
> > Implement two basic lookup charts, one for common invalid or synthesized
> > object IDs, and one for various facts about the hash function in use.
> > Provide versions for both SHA-1 and SHA-256.
> 
> What do test_oid_cache and test_oid_init do?  How can I use them?
> 
> Judging from t0000-basic.sh, the idea looks something like
> 
>       Add a test function helper, test_oid, that ...
> 
>       test_oid allows looking up arbitrary information about an object format:
>       the length of object ids, values of well known object ids, etc.  Before
>       calling it, a test script must invoke test_oid_cache (either directly
>       or indirectly through test_oid_init) to load the lookup charts.
> 
>       See t0000 for an example, which also serves as a sanity-check that
>       these functions work in preparation for using them in the rest of the
>       test suite.
> 
>       There are two basic lookup charts for now: oid-info/oid, with common
>       invalid or synthesized object IDs; and oid-info/hash-info, with facts
>       such as object id length about the formats in use.  The charts contain
>       information about both SHA-1 and SHA-256.
> 
>       So now you can update existing tests to be format-independent by (1)
>       adding an invocation of test_oid_init to test setup and (2) replacing
>       format dependencies with $(test_oid foo).
> 
>       Since values are stored as shell variables, names used for lookup can
>       only consist of shell identifier characters.  If this is a problem in
>       the future, we can hash the names before use.
> 
>       Improved-by: Eric Sunshine <[email protected]>
> 
> Do these always use sha1 for now?  Ah, t0000 answers but it might be
> worth mentioning in the commit message, too:
> 
>       test_set_hash allows setting which object format test_oid should look
>       up information for, and test_detect_hash returns to the default format.

I'll expand the commit message.  They do use SHA-1 for now, but I have a
branch that makes them use SHA-256 instead.

> [...]
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/t/oid-info/hash-info
> > @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> > +rawsz sha1:20
> > +rawsz sha256:32
> 
> Can there be a README in this directory describing the files and format?

Sure, if you like.

> [...]
> > --- a/t/t0000-basic.sh
> > +++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh
> > @@ -821,6 +821,41 @@ test_expect_success 'tests clean up even on failures' "
> >     EOF
> >  "
> >  
> > +test_oid_init
> 
> Can this be wrapped in test_expect_success?  That way, if it fails or
> prints an error message then the usual test machinery would handle it.

Sure.

> > +
> > +test_expect_success 'test_oid provides sane info by default' '
> > +   test_oid zero >actual &&
> > +   grep "^00*$" actual &&
> 
> nit: can save the reader some confusion by escaping the $.

Good point.

> > +   rawsz="$(test_oid rawsz)" &&
> > +   hexsz="$(test_oid hexsz)" &&
> 
> optional: no need for these quotation marks --- a command substitution
> assigned to a shell variable is treated as if it were quoted.

That's good to know.  I will honestly say that looking through the Git
codebase and getting reviews on the list has taught me huge amounts
about the intricacies of shell.

> [...]
> > --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> > +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> > @@ -1155,3 +1155,47 @@ depacketize () {
> [...]
> > +test_oid_cache () {
> > +   test -n "$test_hash_algo" || test_detect_hash
> 
> Should this use an uninterrupted &&-chain?

Yes.  Will fix.

> > +   while read _tag _rest
> 
> This appears to be the first use of this naming convention.  I wonder
> if we can use "local" instead.

We probably can.  There was a discussion about this elsewhere, and we
determined that it's probably safe, and if it's not, it should be
relatively easy to back out.

> > +           esac &&
> > +
> > +           _k="${_rest%:*}" &&
> > +           _v="${_rest#*:}" &&
> > +           { echo "$_k" | egrep '^[a-z0-9]+$' >/dev/null ||
> > +                   error 'bug in the test script: bad hash algorithm'; } &&
> > +           eval "test_oid_${_k}_$_tag=\"\$_v\"" || return 1
> 
> This is dense, so I'm having trouble taking it in at a glance.
> 
> I think the idea is
> 
>               key=${rest%%:*} &&
>               val=${rest#*:} &&
> 
>               if ! expr "$key" : '[a-z0-9]*$' >/dev/null
>               then
>                       error ...
>               fi &&
>               eval "test_oid_${key}_${tag}=\${val}"

Yes.  I take it that you think that's easier to read, so I'll rewrite it
that way.  I will admit a tendency to write code that is more compact,
sometimes (unintentionally) at the cost of readability.  Thanks for
providing a sanity check.

I agree that expr is probably better than the echo and egrep.

> > +   done
> > +}
> > +
> > +test_oid () {
> > +   eval "
> > +           test -n \"\${test_oid_${test_hash_algo}_$1+set}\" &&
> > +           printf '%s' \"\${test_oid_${test_hash_algo}_$1}\"
> > +   "
> 
> I'm also having trouble taking this one in.  Maybe splitting into two
> evals would work?
> 
>       var=test_oid_${test_hash_algo}_$1 &&
> 
>       eval "test -n \"\${$var+set}\"" &&
>       eval "printf '%s\n' \"\${$var}\""
> 
> What is the initial test meant to do?  Can this function get a
> documentation comment?  Are we relying on "test -n" to return a failing
> result if the variable is unset, or could the test be omitted (relying
> on "\${$var}" to evaluate to "" when the variable is unset)?  Should
> this call 'error' when the variable is unset?

Yes.  The test -n will return false if the variable is unset, since
${$var+set} evaluates to nothing if the variable is unset and "set" if
it is set.  I will admit that I had to look this up in the shell
documentation, so I'm not surprised that this is confusing at first
glance.

Switching to error is probably better.

> Can t/README describe the new test helpers?

Sure.  I wasn't aware that there was one to add this to, but now that
you've pointed it out, it makes sense to add them.
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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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