On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Michael Rappazzo <[email protected]> wrote:
> test-lib: add a function to compare an expection with stdout from a command
Rather long subject. Perhaps:
test-lib: add convenience function to check command output
> test_stdout accepts an expection and a command to execute. It will execute
> the command and then compare the stdout from that command to an expectation.
> If the expectation is not met, a mock diff output is written to stderr.
I wonder if this deserves more flexibility by accepting a comparison
operator, such as = and !=, similar to test_line_count()? Although, I
suppose such functionality could be added later if deemed useful.
> Based-on-a-patch-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Since Peff wrote the actual code[1], it might be worthwhile to give
him authorship by prepending the commit message with a "From: Jeff
King <[email protected]>" header.
> Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <[email protected]>
> ---
> diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> @@ -941,3 +941,37 @@ mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ () {
> +# test_stdout is a helper function to compare expected output with
> +# the standard output of a command execution
> +#
> +# Args:
> +# 1: The expected output
> +# 2: The command to run
> +#
> +# You can use it like:
> +#
> +# test_expect_success 'foo works' '
> +# test_cmp "This is expected" cmd_to_run arg1 arg2 ... argN
> +# '
test_cmp?
> +# The output when there is a mismatch mimics diff output, but this
> +# can break down for a multi-line result
Hmm, considering that $(...) collapses each whitespace run (including
newlines) down to a single space, I don't see how you could get a
multi-line result.
By the way, either the documentation should mention this limitation
("not possible to check multi-line output") or the implementation
should be upgraded to support it.
> +test_stdout () {
> + expect=$1
> + shift
> + if ! actual=$("$@")
> + then
> + echo "test_stdout: command failed: '$*'" >&2
> + return 1
> + fi
> + if test "$expect" != "$actual"
> + then
> + echo "test_stdout: unexpected output for '$*'" >&2
> + echo "@@ -N +N @@" >&2
> + echo "-$expect" >&2
> + echo "+$actual" >&2
This faux diff output is quite a bit more noisy than the simple error
message emitted by Peff's original[1] and it doesn't provide any
additional useful information, so it doesn't feel like an improvement.
Adding quotes around $expect and $actual in Peff's error message would
probably be an improvement, though.
> + return 1
> + fi
> + return 0
> +}
[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291475
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