On 5/19/21 6:09 PM, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 10:46 +0200, Michal Prívozník wrote: >> On 5/14/21 11:28 PM, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: >>> Currently, we're loading and parsing the xml from the input file, >>> and >>> then formatting it and then comparing it directly back to the input >>> file. This works for now, but is severely limiting as it relies on >>> the >>> input file being fully-specified and in the exact order as the >>> output >>> xml format. >>> >>> If optional elements are ommitted in the input XML, the output xml >>> may include default values for the ommitted elements and thus the >>> output >>> will not match the input. >>> >>> In order to allow more flexibility in testing, save the expected >>> output >>> to a seprate 'out' directory similar to what most of the other >>> xml2xml >>> tests are already doing. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >> >> Fair enough - we have plenty of examples around, qemuxml2xmloutdata/ >> to >> name the biggest one. However, what we also do (to save disk space) >> is >> to turn those files where input XML is the same as output XML into >> symlinks. I've identified a few which could be just a symlink: >> >> tests/nodedevxml2xmlout $ for i in *; do if diff $i >> ../nodedevschemadata/$i >/dev/null ; then echo $i; fi; done >> DVD_GCC_4247N.xml >> DVD_with_media.xml >> ap_07_0038.xml >> ap_card07.xml >> ap_matrix.xml >> ap_matrix_mdev_types.xml >> .... >> >> I know you are modifying some of these files (mdev*), that's why I >> ran >> the command only after all your patches. For these patches we could >> make >> everything a symlink in 1/4 and then as we need to make changes (in >> 2/4 >> and 3/4) remove those symlinks and make regular copies. >> >> Do you think it's worth doing? If so, no need to resend, it's >> something >> I can fix before pushing. Plus marking @outfile variable in >> testCompareXMLToXMLHelper() as g_autofree (thanks to Pavel who >> noticed!). > > Sure, that's fine with me. The vast majority of these files are staying > the same (which is why the tests currently pass -- the output is > identical to the input). So symlinks should be fine for those. Awesome, I've fixed all those things we talked about and merged. For whole series: Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> Michal