You might have some online resources under your control, and may wish for these tests to fail when they cannot connect, while ignoring connection failures in others. As noted by Andrea in our discussion last August, this decision must be left to those configuring the online test fixtures for a particular continuous integration engine instance. This requirement (and Andrea's suggestion) guided the implementation.
Please re-read the discussions on the proposal page to refresh your memory: http://n2.nabble.com/Prevent-silent-failures-of-online-tests-td1954287.html http://n2.nabble.com/Proposal%3A-support-test-fixtures-that-fail-on-failed-connection--GEOT-1951--td1958345.html We went over this in August, and I was deterred; apologies for the delay in reviving this proposal. Recent development ordeals have hardened my resolve. :-| The underlying problem is that some unit tests must do a lot of work to connect(), and the default behaviour is that failure in connect() is silently ignored. For a unit test, this is pure evil. Not wanting to impose my moral purity on the community, I have made good an optional behaviour. :-) Kind morally relativistic regards, Ben. Jody Garnett wrote: > How would that be helpful? I could see throwing a java property to ask > the online tests to fail.... > Personally I log the first failed connection message. > > Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >> I propose that an optional key be added to OnlineTestCase to cause test >> failure on failed connection: >> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/OnlineTestCase+support+for+failure+on+failed+connection -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining Australian Resources Research Centre 26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
