Re: [stellation-res] Transitional Eclipse GUI Client

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:51 PM 10/13/2003, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:

> How about the easiest solution of all: install a Stellation test server on 
> your
> own machine? The self-hosting server is not for everyone to run tests of
> possibly buggy code against; it's for managing the code for Stellation! You
> *never* run code against a production system - that's the whole point of the
> debug tag on the access point!

Well.... (somewhat lamely)
* My old server / database config disappeared when I upgraded to RH9; I was 
hoping
to avoid some install/configure mucking about.
* I'm working on both Windows and Linux, and would like to access a server 
from both.

Howzabout I use a test server running on our internal Linux box: svc.watson ?

- Jim


> On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 05:43  PM, Jim Wright - IBM Research wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > Per my earlier post on Oct 1,  I'm working on a 'transitional' Eclipse 
> > client.
> > (See Wiki discussions for details).  This involves from-scratch Stellation
> > workspace code.
> >
> > I've just smoke-tested the basic code for accessing the remote Stellation 
> > repository,
> > and it works (at least w.r.t. retrieving the list of current projects 
> > from the repository).
> >
> > Now, I need to expand my JUnit suite to create and modify projects, but there
> > isn't (yet) a way to programmatically delete projects from the repository.
> > This is by design, for safety reasons, but it makes testing difficult
> > (previously, I tested with a local repository and simply deleted the test db
> > between runs - not good here!).
> >
> > Mark -- how should I handle this?  Some possibilties include:
> > * Create a new project with a different name for each test run.  This will
> > create a slew of garbage projects (test1,test2, test3 .... testN), which 
> > should
> > be cleaned up reasonably often, but may be the least-effort solution...
> >
> > * Give me admin privileges on the 'stellhost' so I can delete my
> > test projects as needed.
> >
> > * Create a separate repository ('client_test'), and give me admin 
> > privileges for that
> > (to avoid accidental damage to stellhost contents).
> >
> > * Provide a programmatic way to delete individual projects within a 
> > repository.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > - Jim
> > --
> > Jim Wright, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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