[Junit-trackers] [ junit-Feature Requests-1687449 ] allow non-constant arguments to timeout

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Feature Requests item #1687449, was opened at 2007-03-24 15:59
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Submitted By: Tom Roche (tlroche)
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Summary: allow non-constant arguments to timeout

Initial Comment:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/junit/message/19139
>> I want to be able to read timeout values from
>> Preferences. With JUnitPerf and JUnit 3.x I can
>> decorate a test like

>> + public Test suite() throws FooException {
>> + Test testCase = new TestFoo("testFoo");
>> + return new TimedTest(testCase, getMaxElapsedTime(), false);
>> + }

>> With JUnit 4 I'd like to be able to do
>> something like

>> - @Test(timeout=getMaxElapsedTime())
>> - public void testFoo throws FooException {
>> - ...
>> - }

>> but can't. 

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/junit/message/19140
> There's no way to do this using the built-in
> runners, although a custom runner could do it.
> If you submit a feature request to SourceForge,
> I'd be happy to take another look at it. Thanks,

> David Saff


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Comment By: David Saff (dsaff)
Date: 2009-11-16 17:52

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Comment By: Mahmood Ali (mali999)
Date: 2008-07-18 23:10

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This is not possible.  The timeout value needs to be a compile-time
constant expression, like any other annotation value (JLS 9.7, 15.28).

Java specification disallows:
@Test(timeout=getMaxElapsedTime()) ...

but allows:
final int MAX_ELAPSED_TIME = 1;
@Test(timeout=MAX_ELAPSED_TIME) ...


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