Re: Test java program that use cleartool (clearcase)

From:
Gordon Beaton <n.o.t@for.email>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
05 Sep 2007 18:51:44 GMT
Message-ID:
<46defac0$0$27846$8404b019@news.wineasy.se>
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:04:23 -0700, mike wrote:

Is there a way in my tests to sort of /dev/null the call to
cleartool and then just return my result from the cleartool command
as a String that can be parsed.


This comes to mind:

  public static boolean testing = true;

  public InputStream runCleartoolCommand(String cmd) {
    if (testing) {
      Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
      return process.getInputStream();
    }
    else {
      return new FileInputStream(whichTestFile(cmd));
    }
  }

Then:

  InputStream is = runCleartoolCommand("cleartool co file.txt");

An alternative is to leave the Java application unchanged and instead
write a cleartool *script* that e.g. cats the file that corresponds to
the specific command:

  #!/bin/sh
  # cleartool test utility

  case "$1" in
  "co")
    cat cleartool_co.txt
    ;;

  "ci")
    cat cleartool_ci.txt
    ;;

  *)
    cat cleartool_default.txt
    ;;
  esac

You can make this as simple or as complex as you need, for example by
substituting the remaining cleartool arguments into the resulting
stream with sed, etc.

/gordon

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