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Gus Heck commented on SOLR-11872:
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{quote}_*Whoa...*_ I strongly disagree with this idea: the ref guide is for
_end users_ of solr
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People who write solrj code that interacts with solr sometimes use these test
classes to power their own tests (running against their schema/etc)... I think
our _end users_ are almost always developers of one level or another. How to
quickly and easily write a unit test against an embedded solr (which class to
use, what to do and not do, C/P starter example etc) is something I think a
segment end users who use solrj might be happy to find in the ref guide, but
sure better javadocs would be a great too. Personally for projects I do, I
often pursue a more strictly unit test / mock object style, with fewer of these
sorts of integrated tests (using embeded servers), but I know there are lots of
folks who just love embedded server tests (for a variety of servers, not just
solr).
> Refactor test infra to work with a managed SolrClient; ditch TestHarness
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>
> Key: SOLR-11872
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-11872
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: Tests
> Reporter: David Smiley
> Priority: Major
>
> This is a proposal to substantially refactor SolrTestCaseJ4 and some of its
> intermediate subclasses in the hierarchy. _In essence, I envision that tests
> should work with a SolrClient typed "solrClient" field managed by the test
> infrastructure._ With only a few lines of code, a test should be able to pick
> between an instance based on EmbeddedSolrServer (lighter tests),
> HttpSolrClient (tests HTTP/Jetty behavior directly or indirectly), SolrCloud,
> and perhaps a special one for our distributed search tests. STCJ4 would
> refactor its methods to use the solrClient field _instead of TestHarness_.
> TestHarness would disappear as-such; bits of its existing code would migrate
> elsewhere, such as to manage an EmbeddedSolrServer for testing.
> I think we can do a transition like this in stages and furthermore minimally
> affecting most tests by adding some deprecated shims. Perhaps STCJ4 should
> _become_ the deprecated shim so that users can still use it during 7.x and to
> help us with the transition internally too. More specifically, we'd add a new
> superclass to STCJ4 that is the future – "SolrTestCase".
> Additionally, there are a bunch of methods on SolrTestCaseJ4 that I question
> the design of, especially ones that return XML strings like {{delI}}
> (generates a delete-by-id XML string) and {{adoc}}. Perhaps that used to be a
> fine idea before there was a convenient SolrClient API but we've got one now
> and a test shouldn't be building XML unless it's trying to test exactly that.
> For consulting work I once developed a JUnit4 {{TestRule}} managing a
> SolrClient that is declared in a test with an annotation of {{@ClassRule}}. I
> had a variation for SolrCloud and EmbeddedSolrServer that was easy for a test
> to choose. Since TestRule is an interface, I was able to make a special
> delegating SolrClient subclass that implements TestRule. This isn't essential
> but makes use of it easier since otherwise you'd be forced to call something
> like getSolrClient(). We could go the TestRule route here, which I prefer
> (with or without having it subclass SolrClient), or we could alternatively do
> TestCase subclassing to manage the lifecycle.
> Initially I'm just looking for agreement and refinement of the approach.
> After that, sub-tasks ought to be added. I won't have time to work on this
> for some time.
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