Our TAP output was delivering messages as comments before the test
line, where TAP clearly expects the details of a test to follow its
test line. Version 13 provides a YAML block to deliver diagnostics and
encourages use of this, so accumulate our messages in a
QTestCharBuffer instead of emitting them one by one.
However, messages produced after a test has produced its test line
belong to that test, but are too late to be included in its
diagnostics block, so should be emitted immediately as before, albeit
now with a type prefix. This at least separates such messages, from
the end of one test, from messages produced early in the next.
In the process, add a type-prefix to each, to make clear what type of
message it was. Since the Yamlish supported by TAP consumers doesn't
support a way to have many messages, use the extensions: top-level
hash tag with a messages: sub-tag to gather our messages as a list.
(This expands at least one expected output file significantly and
substantially rewrites some others.)
Add methods to QTestCharBuffer, and a helper function, to support this.
Task-number: QTBUG-96844
Change-Id: If44a33da5879ed1670ef0980042599afd516f9d2
Reviewed-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@qt.io>
The Test Anything Protocol (TAP), was originally Perl's simple text-based
interface between testing modules and test harnesses, but has since been
adopted by a large number of producers and consumers in many different
languages, which allows colorizing and summarizing test results.
The format is very simple:
TAP version 13
ok 1 - test description
not ok 2 - test description
---
message: 'Failure message'
severity: fail
expected: 123
actual: 456
...
ok 3 - test description # SKIP
1..3
The specification [1] is very brief, so the implementation has been
based on how typical consumers behave, especially when it comes to
the undefined diagnostics block.
[1] http://testanything.org/tap-version-13-specification.html
Change-Id: I616e802ea380165c678510e940ddc6607d39c92d
Reviewed-by: Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@qt.io>
