So Shindig definitely needs its own tests. The spec will only include
compliance tests because thats all it can/should enforce. Compliance tests
will never be equivalent to a regular testing suite because the spec allows
a lot of different ways to handle one call.

It can't test for instance that a person's name field is equal to what you
think it should be. That could only be in a shindig specific test. The
compliance test would only make sure that the call returned an
opensocial.Name object and had at least one field filled out.

Hope that helps explain things.

- Cassie


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Bruno Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Fantastic Chris. Thanks for the contributions.
>
> To help keep the two versions in sync, we should have test cases that can
> be
> run against both versions. That's something that belongs with the spec and
> outside of Shindig.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Since no one likes to hear "it's being worked on" without being able
> > to see it, and i now have the first visible workings of a php version
> > i thought i'd post a bit of a progress report.
> >
> > I've been working for the last 7 or 8 days on a php port of the java
> > shindig code, I've chosen to follow the structure as closely as
> > possible where the language differences allows for it to make
> > supporting the same features and having the same behavior easier. Now
> > it's been a bit of a challenge, partially because the last time I've
> > read any java code is 8 years behind me, and partially since it's a
> > huge undertaking to port an entire large feature set and service
> > without being able to test it until all the components are done, and
> > php being a completely different environment then the java/jetty one.
> >
> > I've now reached the point where the basic structure is working, and
> > it successfully renders the todo.xml gadget into a valid and correct
> > gadget.
> >
> > I'm still working on the js, rpc, proxy and gadget token bits so their
> > not included in this, also the remote content gadgets are not
> > supported yet (though that will be very quick to follow).
> >
> > I expect to have those lacking bits done in the near future, and
> > combined with a good bit of testing i hope to have a 'patch' ready for
> > submission soonish (and i need to formalize the permission to submit
> > it under the apache license with my employer, but that is a mere
> > formality).
> >
> > Feature wise it's completely compatible to the java cousin, including
> > the 'features', message bundle, etc support and only the GadgetServer,
> > web service and caching parts are different from the java version (in
> > memory caching for instance couldn't work in a multi process php
> > environment), and i think i'll soon add a few more php specific
> > optimizations soon to speed the whole thing up a bit as well.
> >
> > The code i'm using for porting is from feb 14th, i'll evaluate the
> > patches that happen in the meantime once i've got everything done,
> > since doing both would be to much of a strain progress right now.
> >
> > A working demo can be seen here:
> >
> >
> http://shindig.chabotc.com/ifr/?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml
> >
> > And the code-so-far for those who are interested in a sneak preview of
> > it is here:
> > http://www.chabotc.com/php-shindig.tar.gz
> >
> > Please do keep in mind that it's still work in progress, so i know
> > there's no gadget container yet, no proxy implementation etc; If you
> > just want a fully functional php shindig server, please wait a little
> > more since this is nothing but a code preview :)
> >
> >        -- Chris
> >
> >
>

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