[Asunit-users] running asunit tests from a command line using gnash

[James S. <jst...@j-...>]

Hello,

I was just wondering if anybody has had any luck getting AsUnit and 
Gnash to play nicely with each other. I'm currently working on setting 
up an automated build process for an open source Flash project, and I 
would like to have the Ubuntu server that is hosting the repository run 
the unit tests automatically from the command line as a post-commit 
hook. Since Gnash has the ability to print trace statements to standard 
output when invoked with the verbose (-v) flag, it seemed like a 
potentially convenient alternative to the current workaround involving 
installing the debug Flash player and fiddling with the mm.cfg file. In 
addition, Gnash also has the ability to suppress rendering and sound 
when running an SWF, thus making it an even better candidate for use 
with command line batch processes. As an added bonus, Gnash is free 
software and is thus available for a wider variety of Linux systems, 
which many servers are more likely to be running anyway.

With this in mind, I attempted to write my own StdOutResultPrinter class 
that routed output to the trace method as opposed to the text box used 
by the default ResultPrinter class in AsUnit. Unfortunately, my 
resulting SWF only caused Gnash 0.8.1 to throw up a bunch of error 
messages which I can't decipher (listed below). Since Gnash is still in 
an alpha stage and most of the error messages seem to be of the 
"Unimplemented" variety, I'm guessing that this is simply a result of 
some missing functionality within Gnash itself. On the other hand, I 
have verified that trace does print correctly to standard output in a 
separate SWF compiled without AsUnit and run with the same version of 
Gnash - therefore, it does seems as though there is a more specific 
problem resulting from using the two together.

Of course, it's also entirely possible that I just wrote my 
StdOutResultPrinter in some goofy way that is causing problems. So, to 
reiterate, what I'm wondering is: has anybody tried to experiment along 
similar lines with AsUnit and Gnash? If so, have you managed to figure 
out any kind of a workaround for integrating them? I feel like this 
could potentially be a useful solution for others who are trying to set 
up their own build systems, and I can't imagine I'm the first person to 
attempt to utilize this same approach. The frustrating part is that it 
seems so close to working, but it could be that I'll just need to wait 
for a more fully-featured release of Gnash before it will be truly viable.

That said, I would love to be proven wrong, so any ideas would be 
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jamey

-- 
Gnash output log:

3792] 23:50:17: Verbose output turned on
3792] 23:50:17: Base url set to: [tests.swf]
3792] 23:50:17: Movie [tests.swf] (SWF7) added to library
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionImplementsOp(gnash::ActionExec&)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionImplementsOp(gnash::ActionExec&)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionImplementsOp(gnash::ActionExec&)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionImplementsOp(gnash::ActionExec&)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionImplementsOp(gnash::ActionExec&)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionThrow(gnash::ActionExec&)
3792] 23:50:17: frame load advancement (from 4294967295 to 1)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: At end of stream, still no 'undefined' symbol 
found in m_exports (25 entries in it, follow)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionTry(gnash::ActionExec&)
3792] 23:50:17: ACTIONSCRIPT ERROR: Script aborted due to exceeded 
limit: Max stack count reached (255)
3792] 23:50:17: ERROR: Unimplemented: static void 
gnash::SWF::SWFHandlers::ActionTry(gnash::ActionExec&)