[Cobertura-devel] Query regarding remote access of coverage data and reset of the data

[Charalampos P. <cha...@gm...>]

Hi cobertura community,

The project that my team and I are working on requires remote collection of
the coverage data without interrupting the running service (ie. not only
collect data when JVM exits but while the application is running as well).
For instance, it could be a server socket running on a separate thread on
the application under test, accepting connections on a particular port, and
upon receiving a coverage data collection request from a client, it would
return the current coverage data. The client issuing the request to collect
data on the other hand, would collect this coverage data from the server
and merge them with existing local data (if any).

Additionally, one other requirement that we have to fulfill is that after
running a particular test, we need to collect the coverage data remotely
(as described above) and then reset the counters for the next test.
Overall, the flow should look like the following:

time
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

client  [start test 1] _________________________________ [end of test 1,
get coverage data request and reset]------- [ merge received data with
existing ones] --------------- [ start test 2] .....---->

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server
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[send coverage data to client and reset current counters]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

I would greatly appreciate any information as to to what degree I can
fulfill the project requirements with the existing cobertura functionality
and whether you think the effort to implement a server socket and the logic
to send the coverage data remotely and reset existing counters would be
significant (I took a look at the source code but I am not quite sure what
needs to be done yet).

Furthermore, any additional information regarding which files need to be
modified in order to reset the existing counters and what kind of
synchronization is needed to access the coverage data before sending them
remotely to the client, would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Harry