[PATCH] test/README: mention the test_expect_equal_json and *sanitize* functions
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Wed Mar 6 00:34:12 PST 2013
On Wed, Mar 06 2013, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay at 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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