[Cppunit-devel] TestRegistryFactory and named suite registration...

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

This is a follow up to Michael Gerlek question in the forum: "Possible bugs in 
Registry extension files?"

The TestFactoryRegistry allow you to register a suite with a given name, and 
the AutoRegisterSuite named constructor allow you to automatically to that.

This work well. The problem come when you try to register a named suite created 
into the TestFactoryRegistry into another TestFactoryRegistry.

For example, if you want to have the following suite hierarchy:

All Tests
  Functionnal
    Model
    Message  
  UnitTest

You should be able to do:
TestFactoryRegistry &allTests = TestFactoryRegistry::getRegistry()
TestFactoryRegistry &functionnal = TestFactoryRegistry::getRegistry
( "Functionnal" )
allTests.registerFactory( functionnal )

This would add the "Functionnal" suite a child of "All Tests"

functionnal.registerFactory( TestFactoryRegistry::getRegistry("Model" ) );
functionnal.registerFactory( TestFactoryRegistry::getRegistry("Message" ) );

This make the "Model" and "Message" suites children of the "Functionnal" suite.

This nifty tricks allow you to retreive a full suite hierarchy with: 
allTests.makeTest() ;-)

The problem is that the registry assumes ownership of registered test. As a 
result, suite registered this way would be destroyed twice. I still haven't 
though much about a way to solve the problem. Ideas are welcome.

Once this problem is solved, we can go ahead and add a 
CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_NAMED_REGISTRATION as suggested by Michael.

Baptiste.

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