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PDE Junit Test runner forwarding args to Eclipse application [message #648385] |
Wed, 12 January 2011 16:36 |
Adam Betz Messages: 2 Registered: July 2009 |
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I have an application that I am trying to execute WindowTester Pro JUnits on. WTPro is a tool that allows you to execute functional GUI tests against an RCP application. It records these tests as simple JUnit classes, and so you execute them just like you would a JUnit Plug-in test from your IDE, or through the normal set of arguments from Ant or the command line.
My application under test is fairly restrictive and picky about the additional command line arguments you pass to it when it starts, b/c certain application-specific arguments will tell the application to do something different than if it had been started normally (For example, I can pass "-verbose" to my app to print debug statements to std.err). When the application starts, a parser component analyzes all of the command line arguments for acceptable parameters. If an argument is not an accepted parameter, then it will print a message to std.err, and return a GUI dialog window stating that an unknown parameter has been passed. The application then shuts down. Standard Eclipse arguments (-os, -arch, -ws, -consoleLog, -keyring, etc.) are OK, since these have meaning to the underlying Eclipse runtime.
When I am running my JUnits from the command line, I pass in a bunch of Eclipse parameters to invoke the test, including -ws, -os, -arch, -consoleLog, -version, -port, testLoaderClass -loaderpluginname, -classNames -testpluginname. While debugging my application, I see that the PDE test runner is invoked correctly. Right before it invokes the UITestApplication.start method call, I looked at the args array list, and see that all of the eclipse parameters have been stripped away (-ws, -os, etc.) However, those test runner arguments (-testLoaderClass, -pluginname, etc.) have not been stripped away. Instead, they get forwarded to the target runtime, which as I stated above complains when additional or non-consumable parameters get passed to it.
Is there a way that I can tell the PDE test runner not to forward these arguments, or strip them away some how? I imagine I might be able to do this via an extension or wrapper class somewhere, but I have no clue how to do this. The only other alternative that I can think of at this point is to have the application specifically ignore this set of parameters, but that seems kludgey. Any ideas?
I appreciate the feedback!
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