Re: WebDAV provider tests: how about interacting with a server?

Hey Giuseppe,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Giuseppe Castagno <
giuseppe.castagno@acca-esse.eu> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On 01/28/2016 02:15 AM, Chris Sherlock wrote:
>
> > This is pretty cool :-)
> >
> > I’ve currently got an odd issue with Calc not detecting the
> > content-encoding via the WebDAV layer in bug 95217 -
> > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95217 - Persian test
> > in a webpage encoded as UTF-8 is corrupting.
> >
> > Is it worthwhile having an optional component that runs a local webserver
> > that can test out stuff like this?
>
> I was thinking about having VM, each of one with it's own server,eg.
> Apache WebDAV, Alfresco, Windows 7 Profession WebDAV, eXo Platform
>
> I don't know if this can be obtained adding an optional component.


So the ideal solution would be to stub the external dependency and avoid
the need for an external service. IMHO it is the only way how such a test
can be written and be included into the normal LibreOffice build. All other
solutions require that this will be only run in some special circumstances
(which means in the end never). You can have a look at how Cedric solved
that problem for libcmis if you need some inspiration.

If you need help or need more information how to stub a dependency please
contact me.

Regards,
Markus