diff -r 058bb3dc685f -r 0b59724cb3f2 cubicweb/devtools/qunit.py
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+++ b/cubicweb/devtools/qunit.py	Sat Jan 16 13:48:51 2016 +0100
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+# copyright 2010-2011 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+#
+# This file is part of CubicWeb.
+#
+# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+# details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
+# with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import os, os.path as osp
+import errno
+from tempfile import mkdtemp
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
+
+from six.moves.queue import Queue, Empty
+
+# imported by default to simplify further import statements
+from logilab.common.testlib import unittest_main, with_tempdir, InnerTest, Tags
+import webtest.http
+
+import cubicweb
+from cubicweb.view import View
+from cubicweb.web.controller import Controller
+from cubicweb.web.views.staticcontrollers import StaticFileController, STATIC_CONTROLLERS
+from cubicweb.devtools import webtest as cwwebtest
+
+
+class FirefoxHelper(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, url=None):
+        self._process = None
+        self._profile_dir = mkdtemp(prefix='cwtest-ffxprof-')
+        self.firefox_cmd = ['firefox', '-no-remote']
+        if os.name == 'posix':
+            self.firefox_cmd = [osp.join(osp.dirname(__file__), 'data', 'xvfb-run.sh'),
+                                '-a', '-s', '-noreset -screen 0 800x600x24'] + self.firefox_cmd
+
+    def test(self):
+        try:
+            proc = Popen(['firefox', '--help'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)
+            stdout, _ = proc.communicate()
+            return proc.returncode == 0, stdout
+        except OSError as exc:
+            if exc.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+                msg = '[%s] %s' % (errno.errorcode[exc.errno], exc.strerror)
+                return False, msg
+            raise
+
+    def start(self, url):
+        self.stop()
+        cmd = self.firefox_cmd + ['-silent', '--profile', self._profile_dir,
+                                  '-url', url]
+        with open(os.devnull, 'w') as fnull:
+            self._process = Popen(cmd, stdout=fnull, stderr=fnull)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        if self._process is not None:
+            assert self._process.returncode is None,  self._process.returncode
+            self._process.terminate()
+            self._process.wait()
+            self._process = None
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        self.stop()
+
+
+class QUnitTestCase(cwwebtest.CubicWebTestTC):
+
+    tags = cwwebtest.CubicWebTestTC.tags | Tags(('qunit',))
+
+    # testfile, (dep_a, dep_b)
+    all_js_tests = ()
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(QUnitTestCase, self).setUp()
+        self.test_queue = Queue()
+        class MyQUnitResultController(QUnitResultController):
+            tc = self
+            test_queue = self.test_queue
+        self._qunit_controller = MyQUnitResultController
+        self.webapp.app.appli.vreg.register(MyQUnitResultController)
+        self.webapp.app.appli.vreg.register(QUnitView)
+        self.webapp.app.appli.vreg.register(CWDevtoolsStaticController)
+        self.server = webtest.http.StopableWSGIServer.create(self.webapp.app)
+        self.config.global_set_option('base-url', self.server.application_url)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.server.shutdown()
+        self.webapp.app.appli.vreg.unregister(self._qunit_controller)
+        self.webapp.app.appli.vreg.unregister(QUnitView)
+        self.webapp.app.appli.vreg.unregister(CWDevtoolsStaticController)
+        super(QUnitTestCase, self).tearDown()
+
+    def test_javascripts(self):
+        for args in self.all_js_tests:
+            self.assertIn(len(args), (1, 2))
+            test_file = args[0]
+            if len(args) > 1:
+                depends = args[1]
+            else:
+                depends = ()
+            for js_test in self._test_qunit(test_file, depends):
+                yield js_test
+
+    @with_tempdir
+    def _test_qunit(self, test_file, depends=(), timeout=10):
+        QUnitView.test_file = test_file
+        QUnitView.depends = depends
+
+        while not self.test_queue.empty():
+            self.test_queue.get(False)
+
+        browser = FirefoxHelper()
+        isavailable, reason = browser.test()
+        if not isavailable:
+            self.fail('firefox not available or not working properly (%s)' % reason)
+        browser.start(self.config['base-url'] + "?vid=qunit")
+        test_count = 0
+        error = False
+        def raise_exception(cls, *data):
+            raise cls(*data)
+        while not error:
+            try:
+                result, test_name, msg = self.test_queue.get(timeout=timeout)
+                test_name = '%s (%s)' % (test_name, test_file)
+                self.set_description(test_name)
+                if result is None:
+                    break
+                test_count += 1
+                if result:
+                    yield InnerTest(test_name, lambda : 1)
+                else:
+                    yield InnerTest(test_name, self.fail, msg)
+            except Empty:
+                error = True
+                msg = '%s inactivity timeout (%is). %i test results received'
+                yield InnerTest(test_file, raise_exception, RuntimeError,
+                                 msg % (test_file, timeout, test_count))
+        browser.stop()
+        if test_count <= 0 and not error:
+            yield InnerTest(test_name, raise_exception, RuntimeError,
+                            'No test yielded by qunit for %s' % test_file)
+
+class QUnitResultController(Controller):
+
+    __regid__ = 'qunit_result'
+
+
+    # Class variables to circumvent the instantiation of a new Controller for each request.
+    _log_stack = [] # store QUnit log messages
+    _current_module_name = '' # store the current QUnit module name
+
+    def publish(self, rset=None):
+        event = self._cw.form['event']
+        getattr(self, 'handle_%s' % event)()
+        return b''
+
+    def handle_module_start(self):
+        self.__class__._current_module_name = self._cw.form.get('name', '')
+
+    def handle_test_done(self):
+        name = '%s // %s' %  (self._current_module_name, self._cw.form.get('name', ''))
+        failures = int(self._cw.form.get('failures', 0))
+        total = int(self._cw.form.get('total', 0))
+
+        self._log_stack.append('%i/%i assertions failed' % (failures, total))
+        msg = '\n'.join(self._log_stack)
+
+        if failures:
+            self.tc.test_queue.put((False, name, msg))
+        else:
+            self.tc.test_queue.put((True, name, msg))
+        self._log_stack[:] = []
+
+    def handle_done(self):
+        self.tc.test_queue.put((None, None, None))
+
+    def handle_log(self):
+        result = self._cw.form['result']
+        message = self._cw.form.get('message', '<no message>')
+        actual = self._cw.form.get('actual')
+        expected = self._cw.form.get('expected')
+        source = self._cw.form.get('source')
+        log = '%s: %s' % (result, message)
+        if result == 'false' and actual is not None and expected is not None:
+            log += ' (got: %s, expected: %s)' % (actual, expected)
+            if source is not None:
+                log += '\n' + source
+        self._log_stack.append(log)
+
+
+class QUnitView(View):
+    __regid__ = 'qunit'
+
+    templatable = False
+
+    depends = None
+    test_file = None
+
+    def call(self, **kwargs):
+        w = self.w
+        req = self._cw
+        w(u'''<!DOCTYPE html>
+        <html>
+        <head>
+        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
+        <!-- JS lib used as testing framework -->
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="/devtools/qunit.css" />
+        <script src="/data/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+        <script src="/devtools/cwmock.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+        <script src="/devtools/qunit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>''')
+        w(u'<!-- result report tools -->')
+        w(u'<script type="text/javascript">')
+        w(u"var BASE_URL = '%s';" % req.base_url())
+        w(u'''
+            QUnit.moduleStart(function (details) {
+              jQuery.ajax({
+                          url: BASE_URL + 'qunit_result',
+                         data: {"event": "module_start",
+                                "name": details.name},
+                         async: false});
+            });
+
+            QUnit.testDone(function (details) {
+              jQuery.ajax({
+                          url: BASE_URL + 'qunit_result',
+                         data: {"event": "test_done",
+                                "name": details.name,
+                                "failures": details.failed,
+                                "total": details.total},
+                         async: false});
+            });
+
+            QUnit.done(function (details) {
+              jQuery.ajax({
+                           url: BASE_URL + 'qunit_result',
+                           data: {"event": "done",
+                                  "failures": details.failed,
+                                  "total": details.total},
+                           async: false});
+            });
+
+            QUnit.log(function (details) {
+              jQuery.ajax({
+                           url: BASE_URL + 'qunit_result',
+                           data: {"event": "log",
+                                  "result": details.result,
+                                  "actual": details.actual,
+                                  "expected": details.expected,
+                                  "source": details.source,
+                                  "message": details.message},
+                           async: false});
+            });''')
+        w(u'</script>')
+        w(u'<!-- Test script dependencies (tested code for example) -->')
+
+        for dep in self.depends:
+            w(u'    <script src="%s" type="text/javascript"></script>\n' % dep)
+
+        w(u'    <!-- Test script itself -->')
+        w(u'    <script src="%s" type="text/javascript"></script>' % self.test_file)
+        w(u'''  </head>
+        <body>
+        <div id="qunit-fixture"></div>
+        <div id="qunit"></div>
+        </body>
+        </html>''')
+
+
+class CWDevtoolsStaticController(StaticFileController):
+    __regid__ = 'devtools'
+
+    def publish(self, rset=None):
+        staticdir = osp.join(osp.dirname(__file__), 'data')
+        relpath = self.relpath[len(self.__regid__) + 1:]
+        return self.static_file(osp.join(staticdir, relpath))
+
+
+STATIC_CONTROLLERS.append(CWDevtoolsStaticController)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest_main()