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

> On 29 Jan 2016, at 3:29 AM, Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrhard@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Giuseppe,
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Giuseppe Castagno <giuseppe.castagno@acca-esse.eu 
> <mailto: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 
> <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 

Yeah, agreed - probably a set of mock tests might be worthwhile. 

I’m going to keep working on the font stuff, but will try to revisit this soon. Thanks Markus. 

Chris