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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:34:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] test/README: mention the test_expect_equal_json
 and *sanitize* functions

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
+To: Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] test/README: mention the test_expect_equal_json and
+	*sanitize* functions
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+On Wed, Mar 06 2013, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> also fix one typo
+> ---
+
+LGTM.
+
+Tomi
+
+
+>  test/README | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
+>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+>
+> diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
+> index 81c232d..d12cff2 100644
+> --- a/test/README
+> +++ b/test/README
+> @@ -178,11 +178,18 @@ library for your script to use.
+>  
+>   test_expect_equal_file <file1> <file2>
+>  
+> -   Identical to test_exepect_equal, except that <file1> and <file2>
+> +   Identical to test_expect_equal, except that <file1> and <file2>
+>     are files instead of strings.  This is a much more robust method to
+>     compare formatted textual information, since it also notices
+>     whitespace and closing newline differences.
+>  
+> + test_expect_equal_json <output> <expected>
+> +
+> +   Identical to test_expect_equal, except that the two strings are
+> +   treated as JSON and canonicalized before equality testing.  This is
+> +   useful to abstract away from whitespace differences in the expected
+> +   output and that generated by running a notmuch command.
+> +
+>   test_debug <script>
+>  
+>     This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only
+> @@ -253,3 +260,16 @@ variables which are useful in writing tests:
+>      generated script that should be called instead of notmuch to do
+>      the counting.  The notmuch_counter_value() function prints the
+>      current counter value.
+> +
+> +There are also functions which remove various environment-dependent
+> +values from notmuch output; these are useful to ensure that test
+> +results remain consistent across different machines.
+> +
+> + notmuch_search_sanitize
+> + notmuch_show_sanitize
+> + notmuch_show_sanitize_all
+> + notmuch_json_show_sanitize
+> +
+> +   All these functions should receive the text to be sanitized as the
+> +   input of a pipe, e.g.
+> +   output=`notmuch search "..." | notmuch_search_sanitize`
+> -- 
+> 1.8.1.5
+>
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