I hope you'll commit it asap so we can base the xjavadoc testing system
on it.

Ara. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xdoclet-devel-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Vincent Harcq
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:16 AM
> To: 'David Jencks'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-devel] xjavadoc TODOs
> 
> Thanks David,
> I have almost finished InterfaceComparator, ClassComparator, which use
> MethodComparator and FieldComparator.
> I miss a XMLComparator, I will try to implement yours.
> 
> FYI:
> 
> I created a new package under core (so at the same level than samples)
> with brand new classes that are xdoclet tagged.
> [We could also run the tests for samples but changing the samples to
> handle all test cases is a bad idea imho.]
> I generate from them and save generated files as reference under
another
> package (the class Name must be the same)
> Then I compare (using my new stuffs) interfaces and implemented
classes
> at the reflection level (does all methods throws same exceptions, ...)
> 
> When a new bug is found, we have to change the xdoclet tagged bean,
> generate from it, change the reference generated file BY HAND (!), do
> the unit test case again until it does not break.
> 
> It works fine, this may seem a bit unnecessary but I already spotted
one
> bug :(
> 
> The base xdoclet tagged beans have all possibilities that ejb spec
> handles (ejbCreatexxx() for example)
> I will begin CMP and will do something like AllEntityTypesBean to be
> sure (recent bug post on byte[]...)
> 
> I leaved an entry in ClassComparator to "xjavadoc compare" (or
something
> else) the internal of a method later...
> 
> When I will come to tests each tag and each attributes in a tag, and
> also Component Inheritance, it may become a painful job but imho we
have
> to do that...
> The XMLComparator will also be the most important part because it is
in
> xml generation that problems arrises most of the time.
> 
> Regards.
> Vincent
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf
> > Of David Jencks
> > Sent: lundi 25 f�vrier 2002 8:03
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Xdoclet-devel] xjavadoc TODOs
> >
> >
> > Well I've been mentioning it for a while but haven't had time
> > to set it up, but I've attached my xml comparator.  You give
> > it 2 nodes and it gives you back an element listing the
> > differences with navigation info.  I didn't know xpath when I
> > wrote it, which might be a better way of showing where the
> > differences are.
> >
> > If it saves someone a few hours writing something, great, if
> > it's not appropriate, that's fine too.
> >
> > Thanks
> > david jencks
> >
> > On 2002.02.25 01:28:04 -0500 Ara Abrahamian wrote:
> > > > I am very inexperienced with threads, so I would never
> > have spotted
> > > the
> > > > deadlock by just reading the code.
> > > > Did you "see" it or did you experience the deadlock,
> > Konstantin? If
> > > you
> > > > saw
> > > > it, Im really impressed, because
> > > > I have tried to understand threads for a very long time,
> > and I never
> > > seem
> > > > to
> > > > get it completely.
> > >
> > > I experienced it in classdump. Classdump is a good and
> > realistic test!
> > > Btw, it hangs when a syntax error is reported by javacc!! I
> > think we
> > > need to take a look at javacc's error handling docs :-)
> > >
> > > > Anyway, we're now three active committers on xjavadoc, and
that's
> > > > good
> > > for
> > > > time-to-market. I'm still baffled with
> > > > the multithreading approach Ara came up with. I only
> > implementeded
> > > > it.
> > > By
> > > > now it seems to me you're both very much
> > > > up to speed with xjavadoc's under the hood workings. Isn't
JavaCC
> > > great?
> > >
> > > Absolutely!
> > >
> > > > One way to solve it is to provide two different parsers, one
with
> > > unicode
> > > > enabled and one without. Can be achieved
> > > > by preprocessing the grammar with XDoclet's ReplaceCopy task
(see
> > > samples)
> > > > and generate parser into two different
> > > > packages. Then we can add a -unicode runtime flag which
indicates
> > > which
> > > > one
> > > > to use.
> > >
> > > Agree but you're talking about how much performance decrease?!
> > >
> > > > 2) Class resolving. I have experienced some problems if a class
> > > imports
> > > > both
> > > > a package (say foo.bar.*) and also
> > > > a class in the same package (say foo.bar.Grunt), because of
> > > > ambiguity.
> > > I
> > > > have solved this temporarily by juggling
> > > > in SourceClass.qualify(). -But we should verify with the java
> > > > language spec to see what the exact semantics are.
> > >
> > > Yup, I guess it'll fail because we find two classes in two
> > tests and
> > > we don't check if it's the already found one! Very easy to fix.
> > >
> > > > 3) Trailing ; (semicolons). Many sources have kinda this: public
> > > > abstract Foo bar();; or
> > > > public Foo bar() {};
> > > > or something like that..
> > > >
> > > > The issue is that this is wrong according to the language
> > spec, but
> > > both
> > > > javac and javadoc accepts it, and therefore
> > > > there will always be some sources around that uses it. If
> > there is
> > > > an
> > > easy
> > > > way (which doesn't degrade persformance)
> > > > to make the grammar accept it, we'll support it.
> > Otherwise not. It's
> > > not
> > > > hard for people to remove some semicolons
> > > > as long as xjavadoc reports where the problem is (it
> > does). -But you
> > > > should be aware of it, because it will happen if you
> > > > run xjavadoc on large sources like Ant or Xalan.
> > >
> > > Isn't it a matter of a (SEMICOLON)* after each block?
> > >
> > > > 4) We should design a little class hierarchy with as many
> > oddities
> > > > as possible and use that as test data for our JUnit
> > tests. The Hello
> > > > alone is no good, neither are the xdoclet
> > > samples.
> > > > They're too ordinary. What we need to test
> > > > especially is:
> > > > -javadocs in front of methods/classes with/without modifiers
> > > > (Because
> > > as
> > > > far
> > > > as the parser is concerned, the modifier/no modifier
> > situations are
> > > > treated differently). -tricky import ambiguities (as described
> > > > above). -nested inner classes.
> > > > -anonymous inner classes.
> > > > -references to nonexisting classes (like there is a lot
> > of when you
> > > use
> > > > xdoclet).
> > > > -modifying docs (on methods/classes with/without modifiers) and
> > > > saving them.
> > >
> > > Concentrate on xdoclet's usage scenarios for the time being :-)
> > >
> > > > -reading back the modified and saved classes and do
> > asserts in junit
> > > test.
> > > > -adding docs to undocumented classes/methods, both with
> > and without
> > > > modifiers -verify that we don't have any more deadlocks/race
> > > > conditions. -verify that the tag parameter stuff works
> > properly for
> > > > read,update
> > > and
> > > > delete (update should do an add if the tag doesn't exist)
-verify
> > > > that doc indentation is aligned with the class or method
> > when saving
> > > > (must do this manually)
> > > > -do all the above that applies to fields and methods too.
> > > > -test if sources with unicode escapes work properly.
> > > > -this list (plus your additions) should be in the header of the
> > > > XJavaDocTest
> > > > class(es), so we can mark whether the tests are
> > implemented or not)
> > > > -the test hierarchy should of course compile, and the junit
target
> > > shoul
> > > > depend on them being compiled.
> > >
> > > This is a great summary of various ambiguous cases, you've thought
> > > about it deeply!
> > >
> > > Since plugging it in xdoclet is a major project itself we should
> > > handle "Doclet API compatibility test" with testing for
> > equal results
> > > with Sun's API. What you guys think about a XML outputer for both
> > > Sun's API and ours and check for their equality? I believe it'll
be
> > > useful for other cases too, we can use the xml equality code for
> > > testing ejb-jar.xml and other xmls for example.
> > >
> > > > One other idea I have is to write a javadoc doclet which
> > scans a big
> > > > source tree and generates JUnit test classes (using xdoclet's
> > > > template engine.) This is a good way to test if xjavadoc works
the
> > > same
> > > > way
> > > > as javadoc. This shouldn't be too hard to do, and it
> > > > would make us really sure that xjavadoc is ready for action.
> > >
> > > "generates JUnit test classes"? I don't get it.
> > >
> > > > I'll be very busy this week, and won't be able to do much, and
the
> > > week
> > > > after I'm on holiday (skiing in switzerland, yohoo),
> > >
> > > Have fun ;-)
> > >
> > > > so I hope you can start on some of this. I'll leave it up
> > to you to
> > > > prioritise the items and assign them among us. This
> > should really be
> > > > added to the SF tracker under xjavadoc, but I don't
> > > have
> > > > time to do that now.
> > >
> > > Yup. Konstantin, what's your schedule? What you're interested in?
> > >
> > > Ara.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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