Re: [BuildStream] How to catch regressions in buildstream's interactive interface

[Jonathan Maw <jonathan maw codethink co uk>]

On 2018-10-22 18:28, Jonathan Maw via BuildStream-list wrote:
> On 2018-10-20 14:08, Gökçen Nurlu wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Maybe we can find a way to make use of  `input=` kwarg of click's own
> > `invoke()` method [0].
> > `tests.testutils.runcli.Cli.run()` [1] can possibly be extended to
> > accept such parameter and pass that to click object [2], somehow.
> >
> > [0] - https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/testing/#input-streams
> > [1] -
> > https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream/blob/master/tests/testutils/runcli.py#L238
> > [2] -
> > https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream/blob/master/tests/testutils/runcli.py#L313
> >
> > Additionally, I think extending test utils to introduce this kind of
> > tests might deserve a separate issue to track it more visibly. Do have
> > one already?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Gokcen
>
> Hi Gokcen,
>
> I'll have a look at it. The listed example won't fit my use-case (I
> need to send input as a result of certain output), but I'll dig into
> the documentation to see if it can support that.

Having looked into what click's testing API [1] can do, there does not 
appear to be any interface that'll help me to send lines to the input in 
response to specific output, so I'll have to make do with pexpect for 
now.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[1] https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/api/

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