You could create a set of JUnit test cases and have ant call them instead of
creating a specific ant task just for regex tests. Other apache projects
are doing this ( velocity, turbine )
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael McCallum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 7:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Test Suites]
>
>
> My plan is to create an ant task that performs a set of tests
> on a regular
> expression.
>
> Something like the following...
>
> <regexptest pattern="w+"/ error="no">
> <test text="a word type thing" match='yes">
> <subexpression text="a"/>
> </test>
> </regexptest>
>
> I have not played with the ant source in a while so not sure
> if its possible
> to do this but from memory the sql uses ant in a similar way
> so should be
> possible.
>
> This would be useful for test suites not only for development
> within the oro
> and regexp packages but also for testing re used in other projects.
>
> Will add the ability to use fields and possibly methods in
> the tests as well.
>
> Michael
>
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