Hello. I have a problem with testing. I've wrote a client library for NNTP protocol. However I don't know how to test it. I though about spawning a thread for server inside a test but Haskell (ghc and hugs?) uses green blocking threads so forkIO is not an option. I cannot also use POSIX fork as in documentation it is stated that I cannot use IO in argument. I'd not like to create separate process as IPC is not something nice (and there is separation between two parts of test). Testing on real server have also some disadvantages (on real one it is not predictable and setting one just for tests...) What is the correct solution? PS. Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to the list. I will eventually use Gmane but well. I'm in the process of writing NNTP client as no other suited me ;)
Maciej Piechotka wrote:
Hello. I have a problem with testing. I've wrote a client library for NNTP protocol. However I don't know how to test it.
I though about spawning a thread for server inside a test but Haskell (ghc and hugs?) uses green blocking threads so forkIO is not an option.
GHC forkIO uses threads that can make blocking foreign calls in parallel (*not* blocking the whole process), at least if you compile with ghc -threaded -Isaac
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:59 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
Maciej Piechotka wrote:
Hello. I have a problem with testing. I've wrote a client library for NNTP protocol. However I don't know how to test it.
I though about spawning a thread for server inside a test but Haskell (ghc and hugs?) uses green blocking threads so forkIO is not an option.
GHC forkIO uses threads that can make blocking foreign calls in parallel (*not* blocking the whole process), at least if you compile with ghc -threaded
-Isaac
Thank you. Is there any guide how to set up tests? I have sources in src/ directory and tests in tests/. Regards
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:03 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:59 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
Maciej Piechotka wrote:
Hello. I have a problem with testing. I've wrote a client library for NNTP protocol. However I don't know how to test it.
I though about spawning a thread for server inside a test but Haskell (ghc and hugs?) uses green blocking threads so forkIO is not an option.
GHC forkIO uses threads that can make blocking foreign calls in parallel (*not* blocking the whole process), at least if you compile with ghc -threaded
-Isaac
Thank you. Is there any guide how to set up tests? I have sources in src/ directory and tests in tests/.
Regards
Ok. I found out. For those who will search - -i option sets the search path so runhaskell -isrc test/... will do. Regards
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