On Monday 19 February 2001 14:17, you wrote:
} 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 )
Could do.
What I want is a simple way for anyone to write a test scipt for
1) A pattern eg \w, \w+, etc etc
2) A set of constants on a class eg EmailProcessingConstants.RE_USERNAME
The reason I wanted to make it a task is that everyone would have it available with
ant.
And there are a lot of projects that use re's. Otherwise I would have to distribute
the test.
I wiil have a look at what velocity and turbine have done.
Basically the testing of re is not a project specific thing at the code level where
the junit
test comes in but a configurable thing like a xml script of tests.
I was looking at the ant source last night and its using some re anyway. Because they
way they use
it lead very nicely into a testing task I think it would be suitable. At the moment
they use an adapter to
abstract away a particular regexp implementation from ant. If someone chooses to use
another package they
just have to implement the RegExpMatcher class. But how do they know it works
properly. Here comes
room for a nice test.
But I digress. I will have a look at JUnit, I should be using it anyway so Ill see.
They code will look the
same whether its wraped in JUnit or Ant anyway.
Michael
