Re: [Vala] Unit testing in Vala

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 23:36 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> I know that glib trunk contains provisions for unit testing, but they
> are not yet included in a stable release. This means that the Vala
> bindings are unlikely to sport them as we speak, but they could make
> an excellent addition to Vala when the next glib release hits the
> block.
>
> Unfortunately (by my limited understanding) the GLib devs decided to
> go with a pretty odd syntax for their assertions, which might make it
> hard to bind. Fx:
>
>   g_assert_cmpstr ("foo", <, "fzz");
>   g_assert_cmpstr ("fzz", >, "faa");
>   g_assert_cmpstr ("fzz", ==, "fzz");
>
> Will this (insanity) be possible to map to Vala?

Not that easily but we could add special support to valac, so that you
can just use

assert ("foo" < "fzz");

and valac will convert it to the most appropriate assert macro to get
the best debug output.

Jürg