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+Subject: [PATCH] test: Use associative arrays to track external prereqs\r
+Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:54:01 -0500\r
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+Previously, the test framework generated a variable name for each\r
+external prereq as a poor man's associative array. Unfortunately,\r
+prereqs names may not be legal variable names, leading to\r
+unintelligible bash errors like\r
+ test_missing_external_prereq_emacsclient.emacs24_=t: command not found\r
+\r
+Using proper associative arrays to track prereqs, in addition to being\r
+much cleaner than generating variable names and using grep to\r
+carefully construct unique string lists, removes restrictions on\r
+prereq names.\r
+---\r
+ test/test-lib.sh | 24 ++++++++++++++----------\r
+ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+index 77063a4..f169785 100644\r
+--- a/test/test-lib.sh\r
++++ b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+@@ -625,18 +625,22 @@ test_have_prereq () {\r
+ esac\r
+ }\r
+ \r
++declare -A test_missing_external_prereq_\r
++declare -A test_subtest_missing_external_prereq_\r
++\r
+ # declare prerequisite for the given external binary\r
+ test_declare_external_prereq () {\r
+ binary="$1"\r
+ test "$#" = 2 && name=$2 || name="$binary(1)"\r
+ \r
+- hash $binary 2>/dev/null || eval "\r
+- test_missing_external_prereq_${binary}_=t\r
++ if ! hash $binary 2>/dev/null; then\r
++ test_missing_external_prereq_["${binary}"]=t\r
++ eval "\r
+ $binary () {\r
+- echo -n \"\$test_subtest_missing_external_prereqs_ \" | grep -qe \" $name \" ||\r
+- test_subtest_missing_external_prereqs_=\"\$test_subtest_missing_external_prereqs_ $name\"\r
++ test_subtest_missing_external_prereq_[\"${name}\"]=t\r
+ false\r
+ }"\r
++ fi\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+ # Explicitly require external prerequisite. Useful when binary is\r
+@@ -644,7 +648,7 @@ $binary () {\r
+ # Returns success if dependency is available, failure otherwise.\r
+ test_require_external_prereq () {\r
+ binary="$1"\r
+- if [ "$(eval echo -n \$test_missing_external_prereq_${binary}_)" = t ]; then\r
++ if [[ ${test_missing_external_prereq_["${binary}"]} == t ]]; then\r
+ # dependency is missing, call the replacement function to note it\r
+ eval "$binary"\r
+ else\r
+@@ -737,9 +741,9 @@ test_skip () {\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+ test_check_missing_external_prereqs_ () {\r
+- if test -n "$test_subtest_missing_external_prereqs_"; then\r
+- say_color skip >&1 "missing prerequisites:"\r
+- echo "$test_subtest_missing_external_prereqs_" >&1\r
++ if [[ ${#test_subtest_missing_external_prereq_[@]} != 0 ]]; then\r
++ say_color skip >&1 "missing prerequisites: "\r
++ echo ${!test_subtest_missing_external_prereq_[@]} >&1\r
+ test_report_skip_ "$@"\r
+ else\r
+ false\r
+@@ -1022,7 +1026,7 @@ test_python() {\r
+ # most others as /usr/bin/python. So first try python2, and fallback to\r
+ # python if python2 doesn't exist.\r
+ cmd=python2\r
+- [[ "$test_missing_external_prereq_python2_" = t ]] && cmd=python\r
++ [[ ${test_missing_external_prereq_[python2]} == t ]] && cmd=python\r
+ \r
+ (echo "import sys; _orig_stdout=sys.stdout; sys.stdout=open('OUTPUT', 'w')"; cat) \\r
+ | $cmd -\r
+@@ -1064,7 +1068,7 @@ test_reset_state_ () {\r
+ test -z "$test_init_done_" && test_init_\r
+ \r
+ test_subtest_known_broken_=\r
+- test_subtest_missing_external_prereqs_=\r
++ test_subtest_missing_external_prereq_=()\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+ # called once before the first subtest\r
+-- \r
+1.7.10.4\r
+\r