Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2] t: migrate t0110-urlmatch-normalization to the new framework

On 14/08/24 00:52, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Ghanshyam Thakkar [off-list ref] writes:

I wonder if we should get of t/t-urlmatch-normalization/ directory
and instead hold these test data in the form of string constants in
the program.  After all, you have the expected normalization result
hardcoded in the binary (e.g. t_url_high_bit() asks the checker
function to read from "url-1" file and then compare the result of
normalization with a hardcoded string constant), so having the test
data in separate files only risks the input and the output easily
drift apart.

As a side effect, it would make it easily possible to run the tests
anywhere, because you no longer depend on these url-$n input files.
It of course depends on how burdensome the limitation that we can
run the tests only from a fixed place really is, but it generally is
not a good idea to have these random sequence of bytes in small
files that nobody looks at in a repository in the first place.

I think the reason these inputs are present in the files is solely
because they are random sequence of characters which contain unicode
and even some control characters. This makes it tricky to hold the
input string in the source itself.

I'm not sure there would be a straight-forward way to have these inputs
in the C source file. There may be some way to represent them in an 
alternate form but I suppose that would sacrifice the readability of 
these inputs which I believe is also a significant factor for test cases.

Feel free to enlighten us if we're possibly missing some straight 
forward way of having these input URLs in the source files.

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Sivaraam