Re: [PATCH] test/README: mention the test_expect_equal_json and *sanitize* functions

[Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>]

On Wed, Mar 06 2013, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> wrote:

> also fix one typo
> ---

LGTM.

Tomi


>  test/README | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
> index 81c232d..d12cff2 100644
> --- a/test/README
> +++ b/test/README
> @@ -178,11 +178,18 @@ library for your script to use.
>  
>   test_expect_equal_file <file1> <file2>
>  
> -   Identical to test_exepect_equal, except that <file1> and <file2>
> +   Identical to test_expect_equal, except that <file1> and <file2>
>     are files instead of strings.  This is a much more robust method to
>     compare formatted textual information, since it also notices
>     whitespace and closing newline differences.
>  
> + test_expect_equal_json <output> <expected>
> +
> +   Identical to test_expect_equal, except that the two strings are
> +   treated as JSON and canonicalized before equality testing.  This is
> +   useful to abstract away from whitespace differences in the expected
> +   output and that generated by running a notmuch command.
> +
>   test_debug <script>
>  
>     This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only
> @@ -253,3 +260,16 @@ variables which are useful in writing tests:
>      generated script that should be called instead of notmuch to do
>      the counting.  The notmuch_counter_value() function prints the
>      current counter value.
> +
> +There are also functions which remove various environment-dependent
> +values from notmuch output; these are useful to ensure that test
> +results remain consistent across different machines.
> +
> + notmuch_search_sanitize
> + notmuch_show_sanitize
> + notmuch_show_sanitize_all
> + notmuch_json_show_sanitize
> +
> +   All these functions should receive the text to be sanitized as the
> +   input of a pipe, e.g.
> +   output=`notmuch search "..." | notmuch_search_sanitize`
> -- 
> 1.8.1.5
>
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