testexec.go
/*
testexec is a package that offers some helper functions for testing
execution of commands (either with actual os.Exec, or a callback of your defining),
and tests them using certain conventions of testmark dir+filename names for the fixture data.
This package isn't part of testmark's core, nor is it particularly special.
It's just some conventions that may be handy.
*/
package testexec
import (
"bytes"
"io"
"strconv"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/warpfork/go-testmark"
)
// ExecFn is the outline for a callback that can run individual commands in a sequence of commands.
// An ExecFn can be placed in the Tester config struct to control the behavior of TestSequence.
//
// Semantically, an ExecFn is supposed to treat its args slice roughly as `os.StartProcess` treats `argv`:
// the zeroth element of the slice is the command name (or path), and subsequent slice elements are positional arguments to that command.
// However, it's a freeform callback: you can do as you wish.
type ExecFn func(args []string, stdin io.Reader, stdout, stderr io.Writer) (exitcode int, oshit error)
// ScriptFn is the outline for a callback that can run a script.
// A ScriptFn can be placed in the Tester config struct to control the behavior of TestScript.
//
// Semantically, ScriptFn is... quite free to do whatever it wishes.
// A typical implementation (and the default behavior of this package, if you don't supply a ScriptFn)
// is to handle the script as if it was a bash shell script (so, piping, env vars, etc, are all possible).
// However, one could place any kind of script parser and interpreter within this callback.
type ScriptFn func(script string, stdin io.Reader, stdout, stderr io.Writer) (exitcode int, oshit error)
// FilterFn is the outline for a callback that can be used to normalize some parts of output strings.
// A common example of this is to strip timestamps back out of log messages for a program that emits logs with timestamps.
type FilterFn func(line string) (replacement string)
// AssertFn can be used in Tester to specify a better test assertion function.
// For example, if you use the quicktest package, this is an excellent snippet which will result in good diffs:
//
// func(...) { quicktest.Assert(t, actual, quicktest.CmpEquals(), expect) }
//
// The default behavior, if a Tester object doesn't get an AssertFn, is to fall back to a very basic call to `t.Errorf`.
type AssertFn func(t *testing.T, actual, expect string)
// Tester is a configuration-gathering structure.
// Each of the `Test*` methods upon it will use these callbacks to define their behavior.
//
// All of the fields can be nil, which will result in default behaviors.
// (A nil ExecFn will result in an OS exec being used (specifically: `ExecFn_Exec`);
// a nil FilterFn means no filtering will occur;
// a nil AssertFn means a very basic check using t.Errorf will be used.)
//
// The 'Patches' accumulator will be used to gather new fixture data if `testmark.Regen` is true.
// (If the pointer is nil, a warning will be logged.)
// It is the user's responsibility to actually apply the patches and save the updated document.
type Tester struct {
ExecFn
ScriptFn
FilterFn
AssertFn
Patches *testmark.PatchAccumulator
}
func (tcfg *Tester) init() {
if tcfg.ExecFn == nil {
tcfg.ExecFn = ExecFn_Exec
}
if tcfg.ScriptFn == nil {
tcfg.ScriptFn = ScriptFn_ExecBash
}
if tcfg.AssertFn == nil {
tcfg.AssertFn = defaultAssertFn
}
}
// TestSequence runs a test based on a "sequence" instruction -- a hunk called "sequence" should have a series of lines,
// and each line is a command to be executed.
//
// The model of execution and model of environment used is very simple:
// it's just consecutive lines which will be fed one after another to an ExecFn.
// There is *not* a scripting engine involved (you can't "pipe", use "env vars", use "subcommands",
// "$?" has no special meaning, etc; there's no shell interpreting those things).
// (The ExecFn can be as simple or as complex as you want, of course -- but none of these features are provided for you.)
//
// The parser that splits up each line of the sequences into the args string slice is primitive. It's simply whitespace splitting.
// If you need to test the handling of arguments that involve whitespace, there are two options:
// One, you may want to use TestScript instead (this will let you parse it yourself, and or just hand off to a shell of some kind which means you can use the shell's quoting rules);
// or, Two, you can change your sequence hunk name to `sequences.jsonl`, and put a json list on each line, which will be parsed and that list becomes the args.
//
// Each DirEnt can also contain several other named entries which will be treated specially.
// "output" -- if present, will cause the commands to be given a unified stdout and stderr buffer, and it will be checked against this data when done.
// "stdout" -- if present, works like "output", but only collects stdout. Cannot be combined with "output".
// "stderr" -- ditto "stdout", but for (you guessed it) stderr.
// "exitcode" -- if present, should contains a base-10 number for the expected exit code. If not present, an exitcode of 0 will be expected.
//
// Not every data DirEnt has to contain any of "output", "stdout", "stderr", or "exitcode".
// Containing none of them means the commands in the sequence will all be run,
// and the exitcode is expected to be zero from each,
// and nothing about their stdout nor stderr will be checked.
// (If you want to mandate that their output is empty, you must create a blank data block to say so explicitly.)
//
// If you wish to run some commands, and gather and test (or ignore!) their output as one block,
// then run additional commands in a subtest, you can use another special path name
// in the testmark.DirEnt for that: `then-(.*)`.
// Anything starting with "then-" will cause a new nested `t.Run` block,
// which will have a name that is the rest of the path name once the "then-" prefix has been stripped.
// Inside that DirEnt, all the same rules apply again (we'll look for a "sequence" hunk, etc).
//
// Note that there are no faculties to expect a specific exitcode from a specific line of the sequence,
// nor are their faculties to extract outputs from one specific line of the sequence.
// If you are wanting to do these things, you can use the "then-" feature.
// (This is probably a nudge towards writing better documentation anyway:
// if you have a whole series of commands and it's a very specific one that should stand out,
// you should probably give it separate data blocks for sheer human readability anyway.)
//
// There is no faculty for ignoring an exitcode.
// Surely the systems you're so rigorously ensuring the quality of don't have nondeterministic exit codes;
// so why would you need to do this? If it's allowed to be anything but zero, it should be expected to be that; and if it's expected, say so.
//
// This test system comes complete with fixture regeneration support.
// If `testmark.Regen` is true (e.g. you have invoked "go test" with the argument "-testmark.regen"),
// then instead of making any assertions, this function will accumulate patches
// in the `Tester.Patches` slice.
// Regen mode will only update hunks that already exist; it won't add them.
// As an edge case, note that if that an exitcode hunk is absent, but a nonzero exitcode is encountered,
// the test will still be failed, even though in patch regen mode most assertions are usually skipped.
func (tcfg Tester) TestSequence(t *testing.T, data testmark.DirEnt) {
tcfg.test(t, data, true, false)
}
func (tcfg Tester) TestScript(t *testing.T, data testmark.DirEnt) {
tcfg.test(t, data, false, true)
}
func (tcfg Tester) Test(t *testing.T, data testmark.DirEnt) {
tcfg.test(t, data, true, true)
}
func (tcfg Tester) test(t *testing.T, data testmark.DirEnt, allowExec, allowScript bool) {
t.Helper()
tcfg.init()
sequenceHunk, sequenceMode := data.Children["sequence"]
scriptHunk, scriptMode := data.Children["script"]
if !sequenceMode && !scriptMode {
return
}
if sequenceMode && scriptMode {
t.Logf("warning: dir %q contained both a 'script' and a 'sequence' hunk, which is nonsensical", data.Name)
t.SkipNow()
}
if sequenceMode && !allowExec {
t.Skipf("found sequence hunk but the test framework was invoked without permission to run those")
}
if scriptMode && !allowScript {
t.Skipf("found sequence hunk but the test framework was invoked without permission to run those")
}
if *testmark.Regen && tcfg.Patches == nil {
t.Logf("warning: testmark.regen mode engaged, but there is no patch accumulator available here")
t.Skipf("nothing to do if requested to regenerate test fixtures but have nowhere to put data")
}
// Prepare output buffers.
var stdout, stderr io.Writer
if _, exists := data.Children["output"]; exists {
stdout = &bytes.Buffer{}
stderr = stdout
if _, exists := data.Children["stdout"]; exists {
t.Errorf("testexec entry %q shouldn't contain 'stdout' hunk if it also specifies a unified 'output' hunk", data.Name)
}
if _, exists := data.Children["stderr"]; exists {
t.Errorf("testexec entry %q shouldn't contain 'stderr' hunk if it also specifies a unified 'output' hunk", data.Name)
}
}
if _, exists := data.Children["stdout"]; exists {
stdout = &bytes.Buffer{}
}
if _, exists := data.Children["stderr"]; exists {
stderr = &bytes.Buffer{}
}
var exitcode int
// Do the thing.
switch {
case sequenceMode:
exitcode = tcfg.doSequence(t, sequenceHunk.Hunk, stdout, stderr)
case scriptMode:
exitcode = tcfg.doScript(t, scriptHunk.Hunk, stdout, stderr)
}
// Okay, comparisons time.
// Or, regen time!
if ent, exists := data.Children["output"]; exists {
bs := stdout.(*bytes.Buffer).Bytes()
if *testmark.Regen {
tcfg.Patches.AppendPatchIfBodyDiffers(*ent.Hunk, bs)
} else {
t.Run("check-combined-output", func(t *testing.T) {
tcfg.AssertFn(t, string(bs), string(ent.Hunk.Body))
})
}
}
if ent, exists := data.Children["stdout"]; exists {
bs := stdout.(*bytes.Buffer).Bytes()
if *testmark.Regen {
tcfg.Patches.AppendPatchIfBodyDiffers(*ent.Hunk, bs)
} else {
t.Run("check-stdout", func(t *testing.T) {
tcfg.AssertFn(t, string(bs), string(ent.Hunk.Body))
})
}
}
if ent, exists := data.Children["stderr"]; exists {
bs := stderr.(*bytes.Buffer).Bytes()
if *testmark.Regen {
tcfg.Patches.AppendPatchIfBodyDiffers(*ent.Hunk, bs)
} else {
t.Run("check-stderr", func(t *testing.T) {
tcfg.AssertFn(t, string(bs), string(ent.Hunk.Body))
})
}
}
t.Run("check-exitcode", func(t *testing.T) {
if ent, exists := data.Children["exitcode"]; exists {
if *testmark.Regen {
tcfg.Patches.AppendPatchIfBodyDiffers(*ent.Hunk, []byte(strconv.Itoa(exitcode)))
} else {
tcfg.AssertFn(t, strconv.Itoa(exitcode), strings.TrimSpace(string(ent.Hunk.Body)))
}
} else {
tcfg.AssertFn(t, strconv.Itoa(exitcode), "0")
}
})
// TODO: look for "then-*" dirs.
}
func (tcfg Tester) doSequence(t *testing.T, hunk *testmark.Hunk, stdout, stderr io.Writer) (exitcode int) {
// Loop over the lines in the sequence.
lines := bytes.Split(hunk.Body, []byte{'\n'})
for _, line := range lines {
args := strings.Fields(string(line))
if len(args) < 1 {
continue
}
var err error
exitcode, err = tcfg.ExecFn(args, bytes.NewReader(nil), stdout, stderr)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("execution failed: %s", err)
}
if exitcode != 0 {
break // TODO: it's probably still an error if that happens before the end?
}
}
return
}
func (tcfg Tester) doScript(t *testing.T, hunk *testmark.Hunk, stdout, stderr io.Writer) (exitcode int) {
var err error
exitcode, err = tcfg.ScriptFn(string(hunk.Body), bytes.NewReader(nil), stdout, stderr)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("execution failed: %s", err)
}
return
}
testexec/testexec.go · 11.6 KiB · 73c1a4a4ed