However, as I put in my original message one important use is also being able to test the Java bindings. Sometimes there are strange bugs which are Java binding specific. Those Java binding bugs really should not exist, the bindings should not be doing half the stuff they are but they are the historical baggage we have to deal with if not creating new bindings of our own.
Also file2brl does some stuff as well before calling the C API. I want to test the API we will be using. Michael Whapples On 15/07/2014 13:43, Keith Creasy wrote:
The problem with the current test framework is that it is simple if all one wishes to do is compare text files. I also have not found it to be that easy to use or setup. My first attempt never succeeded and it is difficult to know why. There is little or no documentation. Please consider documentation so that one can reasonably use it without having been the programmer who developed it. I'm not opposed to using it but we need to validate XML output. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian Egli Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:24 AM To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New test framework for liblouisutdml Java bindings Hi On 07/15/2014 12:09 PM, Michael Whapples (Redacted sender mwhapples@xxxxxxx for DMARC) wrote:and also that file2brl is essentially a unix only tool (it cannot be built with defacto compilers on Windows, IE. MSVC), thus the old test framework does not meet with the goal of LibLouisUTDML being cross-platform.You've said this in the past and it is still false. The existing test framework is deliberately simple as to not to depend on too many things. It is just as cross-platform as liblouisutdml itself.* The translateFile tests are defined in the file testdata/translateFileTests.xml. The root element of this file is tests and it can contain translateFileTest elements....The whole thing sounds very complicated. If there is one thing that I learned over the years then its the saying that simplicity always trumps complexity. I wrote a very simple, proof-of-concept test harness for liblouis a while ago, using the Java bindings and Clojure. Maybe some ideas could be stolen from there: https://github.com/egli/louis-clj Hope that helps Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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