2010/10/11 Levente Uzonyi <leves@elte.hu>:
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, mkobetic@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Nicolas,
"Nicolas Cellier"<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi again, I now have ported two more packages - Xtreams-Transforms - Xtreams-Substreams and their tests
This is great! I loaded your code into Pharo 1.1 and things seem to be working quite well. There was a complaint about missing SharedQueue2, I just created a dummy subclass of SharedQueue with that name and things seemed to load fine. XTRecyclingCenter seems to be subclass of XTWriteStream, it should be Object subclass, maybe a typo ?
I did not have any portability problem with those... But that's because I did not handle the Character encoder/decoder. Consequently, I have 8 tests failing (the Base64 related tests)
I was thinking, we could implement just 'encoding: #ascii' quite easily, to make this reasonably usable at least for applications that are fine with that. We're actually contemplating about implementing our own encoders for Xtreams too. The VW ones are tied to the classic streams more than we like. You might have noticed some rather hairy parts in the encoding streams yourself, where we're trying to work around some of the issues it creates. The advantage of reusing the existing encoders was that there are quite a few of those available, so reimplementing all that would be a drag. But we can come up with a scheme where we can reimplement at least the common ones and in VW we can still preserve hooking into the old ones for the rest. I can give that a try on VW side in the meantime so you could get those for free.
Plus 4 other tests failing because of my poor implementation of #after:do: (forking processes in a SUnit TestCase can't be that obvious).
I looked at this, and I think this is how #after:do: should look like:
after: aDelay do: aBlock     "Evaluate the argument block delayed after the specified duration."
    | watchdog |     watchdog := [         aDelay wait.         aBlock value.     ] newProcess.     watchdog priority: Processor userInterruptPriority.     watchdog resume.
This would assume that the 2 tests calling #timeout:server:client: would use a Delay instance instead of a Duration, which I'd be fine with. However making that change doesn't quite get the tests running. It's blowing up with a DNU on the 'output close' bit in #terminate:server:client: with output being nil, which I'm having trouble figuring out. I can't find who could possibly be nilling it out. I'm somewhat struggling finding my way around the Pharo tools. The test seems to otherwise pass but the DNUs from the background process isn't nice. Also when I just click on the test in the TestRunner, I actually get four DNUs, not just one as I would expect. So I'm kinda stuck, not sure how to move forward without help from someone who knows his way around Pharo. I also get odd failure from #testWriteCollectingMultipleBufferSize, which seems to run fine (against collection) when I run the equivalent in a workspace, but strangely fails when running via the #timeout:server:client: construct, i.e. when client and server run in separate processes. Hm, now that I think of it, they sure could fail if something preempts the client, server processes at the right moment. I'll have to rethink that again.
These problems should be solved with the latest version of CoreTests.
Levente
Thanks!