One test (reply to encrypted message in the crypto test) recently
started failing on some systems. The failure I saw were two extra
lines of the form
<87d2nbc5xg.fsf@host.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
The test pipes the output through
grep -v -e '^In-Reply-To:' -e '^References:'
which would normally these two ids but it does not, in this case,
because they are so long they get put on a separate line in the output.
To fix this we set mail-host-address for emacs deliver. example.com
seems a sensible address to use. This is short enough that we don't
get the line breaks above and the tests then all pass.
When 'xpg_echo' bash shell option is unset (usually the default)
echo builtin does not expand backslash-escape sequences by default
(i.e. '\n' is echoed as '\n' instead of newline). Not all bash
installations have this feature we depend on activated by default.
Note that the feature is bash (and GNU /bin/echo) specific. It is used
as it is convenient. If portability is needed (elsewhere) use printf(1)
(also often available as a shell builtin).
When execution of tests is interrupted by signal coming outside of the
test system itself, output just one line "interrupted by signal <num>"
message to standard output. This distinguishes the case from internal
exit and reduces noise.
Set the variable '$test_subtest_name' in all functions which starts
a new test and use that variable in all functions that output
test results.
Additionally output the latest '$test_subtest_name' in case of
abnormal exit, to avoid confusion.
The TERM environment variable is set to 'dumb' when running tests, but
the original value of it is stored for echoing colors and running emacs
(somewhat interactively) in detached session. Emacs requires some
terminal control sequences to be available for interactive operation.
In case original TERM is (also) 'dumb' (or unset/empty) emacs cannot
run interactively. To fix this problem dtach (and emacs as it's child
process) is run with TERM=vt100 in case original TERM was unset, empty
or 'dumb'. This way there is a chance to run emacs tests with different
user terminals and potentially find problems there.
notmuch_json_show_sanitize replaced "filename" field values even in part
structures, where the value is predictable. Make it only normalize the
filename value if it is an absolute path (begins with slash), which is
true of the Maildir filenames that were intended to be normalized away.
test_expect_equal_json uses json.tool from the system Python. While
Python 2 wasn't picky about the encoding of stdin, Python 3 decodes
stdin strictly according to the environment. Since we set LC_ALL=C
for the tests, Python 3's json.tool was assuming stdin would be in
ASCII and aborting when it couldn't decode the UTF-8 characters from
some of the JSON tests. This patch sets the PYTHONIOENCODING
environment variable to utf-8 when invoking json.tool to override
Python's default encoding choice.
Previously, the test framework generated a variable name for each
external prereq as a poor man's associative array. Unfortunately,
prereqs names may not be legal variable names, leading to
unintelligible bash errors like
test_missing_external_prereq_emacsclient.emacs24_=t: command not found
Using proper associative arrays to track prereqs, in addition to being
much cleaner than generating variable names and using grep to
carefully construct unique string lists, removes restrictions on
prereq names.
Previously, if a test script aborted (e.g., because it passed too few
arguments to a test function), the test driver loop would simply
continue on to the next test script and the final results would
declare that everything passed (except that the test count would look
suspiciously low, but maybe you just misremembered how many tests
there were).
Now, if a test script exits with a non-zero status and did not produce
a final results file, we propagate that failure out of the driver loop
immediately.
To keep this simple, this patch removes the PID from the test-results
file name. This PID was inherited from the git test system and seems
unnecessary, since the file name already includes the name of the test
script and the test-results directory is created anew for each run.
And require that if TEST_EMACS is specified, so is TEST_EMACSCLIENT.
Previously, the test framework always used "emacsclient", even if the
Emacs in use was overridden by TEST_EMACS. This causes problems if
both Emacs 23 and Emacs 24 are installed, the Emacs 23 emacsclient is
the system default, but TEST_EMACS is set to emacs24. Specifically,
with an Emacs 24 server and an Emacs 23 client, emacs tests that run
very quickly may produce no output from emacsclient, causing the test
to fail.
The Emacs server uses a very simple line-oriented protocol in which
the client sends a request to evaluate an expression and the server
sends a request to print the result of evaluation. Prior to Emacs bzr
commit 107565 on March 11th, 2012 (released in Emacs 24.1), if
multiple commands were sent to the emacsclient between when it sent
the evaluation command and when it entered its receive loop, it would
only process the first response command, ignoring the rest of the
received buffer. This wasn't a problem with the Emacs 23 server
because it sent only the command to print the evaluation result.
However, the Emacs 24 server first sends an unprompted command
specifying the PID of the Emacs server, then processes the evaluation
request, then sends the command to print the result. If the
evaluation is fast enough, it can send both of these commands before
emacsclient enters the receive loop. Hence, if an Emacs 24 server is
used with an Emacs 23 emacsclient, it may miss the response printing
command, ultimately causing intermittent notmuch test failures.
The use of --background option (instead of shell '&') ensures that
smtp-dummy is listening its server socket until execution of shell
script can continue, thus the client will always have socket where
to connect.
smtp-dummy outputs smtp_dummy_pid variable in shell assignment format;
eval'ing that output makes that variable available for the shell.
As the smtp-dummy instance is no longer child process of the script
the SIGKILL signal sent to it will ensure it is going away in case
the mail sender fails to connect to smtp-dummy.
Obviates the need to create a 'NOTMUCH_NEW' clone which runs
'notmuch new --debug'. This will be used in a later patch.
Doesn't cause any issues for other tests.
Since $TEST_DIRECTORY is an absolute path, any filenames generated
with it will be complete paths. Only use the basename to generate
suffixes for filenames.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan@betacantrips.com>
Most Emacs tests end with a call to (test-output), which saves the
buffer to a filed called OUTPUT. Previously, if the test code failed
with an exception before this call, the test framework would then
compare against the OUTPUT file from the last Emacs test, resulting in
confusing diffs.
This requires one tweak to an emacs test that made two calls to
test_emacs and expected an OUTPUT file from the first call. We simply
reverse the order of the test_emacs calls.
Before the change, test_expect_equal_file() function treated the first
argument as "actual output file" and the second argument as "expected
output file". When the test fails, the files are copied for later
inspection. The first files was copied to "$testname.output" and the
second file to "$testname.expected". The argument order for
test_expect_equal_file() is often wrong which results in confusing
diff output and incorrectly named files.
The patch solves the issue by changing test_expect_equal_file() to
treat arguments just as two files, without any special properties
(like "actual" and "expected"). The file names for copying is now
based on the given file name: "$testname.$file1" and
"$testname.$file2". E.g. if test_expect_equal_file() is called with
"OUTPUT" and "EXPECTED", the copied files can be named
"emacs.1.OUTPUT" and "emacs.1.EXPECTED".
The down side of this approach is that diff argument order depends on
test_expect_equal_file() argument order. So sometimes we get diff
from expected to actual results, and sometimes the other way around.
But the files are always named correctly.
Previously, we used a variety of ad-hoc canonicalizations for JSON
output in the test suite, but were ultimately very sensitive to JSON
irrelevancies such as whitespace. This introduces a new test
comparison function, test_expect_equal_json, that first pretty-prints
*both* the actual and expected JSON and the compares the result.
The current implementation of this simply uses Python's json.tool to
perform pretty-printing (with a fallback to the identity function if
parsing fails). However, since the interface it introduces is
semantically high-level, we could swap in other mechanisms in the
future, such as another pretty-printer or something that does not
re-order object keys (if we decide that we care about that).
In general, this patch does not remove the existing ad-hoc
canonicalization because it does no harm. We do have to remove the
newline-after-comma rule from notmuch_json_show_sanitize and
filter_show_json because it results in invalid JSON that cannot be
pretty-printed.
Most of this patch simply replaces test_expect_equal and
test_expect_equal_file with test_expect_equal_json. It changes the
expected JSON in a few places where sanitizers had placed newlines
after commas inside strings.
Before the change, messages generated by generate_message() used "Test
message #N" for default subject where N is the generated messages
counter. Since message subject is commonly present in expected
results, there is a chance of breaking other tests when a new
generate_message() call is added. The patch changes default subject
value for generated messages to subtest name if it is available. If
subtest name is not available (i.e. message is generated during test
initialization), the old default value is used (in this case it is
fine to have the counter in the subject).
Another benefit of this change is a sane default value for subject in
generated messages, which would allow to simplify code like:
test_begin_subtest "test for a cool feature"
add_message [subject]="message for test for a cool feature"
Emails that are encoded differently than as ASCII or UTF-8 are not
indexed properly by notmuch. It is not possible to search for non-ASCII
words within those messages.
When tests are skipped due to missing prereqs, those prereqs are only
displayed when running with the `--verbose' option. This is essential
information when troubleshooting, so always send to stdout.
Add a new test function to allow simpler testing of emacs
functionality.
`test_emacs_expect_t' takes one argument - a lisp expression to
evaluate. The test passes if the expression returns `t', otherwise it
fails and the output is reported to the tester.
When checking for a running emacs, test_emacs evaluates the empty list
'()'. This returns 'nil' when emacs is running, which is then
prepended to the actual test result. Given that it is not part of the
actual test output the test harness can incorrectly report test
failure (or success).
Used emacs (whitespace-cleanup) function to "cleanup blank problems"
in test files where that could be done without breaking tests;
test/emacs was partially, and test/multipart was fully reverted.
When running the Emacs tests in verbose mode, only the first missing
prereq is reported because the `run_emacs' function is short-circuited
early:
#+begin_example
emacs: Testing emacs interface
missing prerequisites: [0] emacs(1)
skipping test: [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
SKIP [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
#+end_example
This can lead to situations reminiscent of "dependency hell", so instead
of returning based on each individual `test_require_external_prereq's exit
status, we now do so only after checking all the prereqs:
#+begin_example
emacs: Testing emacs interface
missing prerequisites: [0] dtach(1) emacs(1) emacsclient(1)
skipping test: [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
SKIP [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
#+end_example
Also added missing prereq for dtach(1).
It makes no sense to run test-lib.sh, so it makes no sense to give it
an interpreter. This is particularly annoying for Emacs users who
have executable-insert set, since the presence of the #! line will
cause Emacs to mark test-lib.sh executable when saving it, which will
in turn case the 'basic' test to fail.
January 5, 2001 was a Tuesday, not a Friday. Jameson fixed this exact
problem for the multipart test in ec2b0a98cc, but not for
generate_message itself.
As Jameson pointed out in ec2b0a98cc, if we want to test date parsing,
we should do it separately.
As we start to pay more attention to emacs24, it helps to be able to
select a different version of emacs to run the tests with to verify
version specific bugs.
A separate variable TEST_EMACS is needed to avoid being overwritten by the
make variable EMACS in Makefile.config
For what it's worth, the value of emacs is chosen at the time
tmp.emacs/run_emacs is created, so is fixed for all subtests.
The idea is that $test_count could be used in tests to label
intermediate files. The output enabled by this patch (and --debug)
helps figure out which OUTPUT.nn file belongs to which test in case
several subtests write to OUTPUT.$test_count
Some distros (Arch Linux) ship Python as python2 and Python 3 as python.
Checking for python2 is necessary for the Python tests to work on these
platforms.
The new test_python() function makes writing Python tests a little easier:
- it sets the environment variables as needed
- it redirects stdout to the OUTPUT file (like test_emacs()).
This commit also declares python as an external prereq.
The stdout redirection is required to avoid trouble when running commands like
"python 'script' | sort > OUTPUT": in such a case, any error due to a missing
external prereq would be "swallowed" by sort, resulting to a failed test instead
of a skipped one.
The patch adds two auxiliary functions and a variable:
notmuch_counter_reset
$notmuch_counter_command
notmuch_counter_value
They allow to count how many times notmuch binary is called.
notmuch_counter_reset() function generates a script that counts how
many times it is called and resets the counter to zero. The function
sets $notmuch_counter_command variable to the path to the generated
script that should be called instead of notmuch to do the counting.
The notmuch_counter_value() function returns the current counter
value.
The fake missing binary functions check if the binary has already be
added to the diagnostic message to avoid duplicates. Unfortunately,
this check was buggy because the message string does not have the
trailing space.
test_missing_external_prereq_${binary}_ variable indicates that the
binary is missing. It must be set in test_declare_external_prereq()
outside of the fake $binary() function.
Some tests (e.g. crypto) do a common initialization required for all
subtests. The patch adds a check for missing external dependencies
during this initialization. If any prerequisites are missing, all
subtests are skipped.
The check is run on the first call of test_reset_state_ function, so
no changes for the tests are needed.
There is existing support for general prerequisites in the test suite.
But it is not very convenient to use: every test case has to keep
track for it's dependencies and they have to be explicitly listed.
The patch aims to add better support for a particular type of external
dependencies: external executables. The main idea is to replace
missing external binaries with shell functions that have the same
name. These functions always fail and keep track of missing
dependencies for a subtest. The result reporting functions later can
check that an external binaries are missing and correctly report SKIP
result instead of FAIL. The primary benefit is that the test cases do
not need to declare their dependencies or be changed in any way.
If mail sending from emacs fails before it has chance to connect
to the smtp-dummy mail server, the opportunistic QUIT message
sending makes smtp-dummy to exit.
