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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: Use associative arrays to track external prereqs\r
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+On Wed, Nov 28 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
+\r
+> 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
+\r
+That looks good and something like I once attempted\r
+(at that time this would have make tests fail as this\r
+speeds up the script execution so much that smtp-dummy\r
+may not have time to start before it was used -- now\r
+that is taken care by smtp-dummy --background feature :)\r
+\r
++1\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r
+\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
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