Re: [Shunit2-users] Stubbing file tests in shUnit2

[Alex H. <ale...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I have discovered the project on Github:
https://github.com/kward/shunit2

I assume I can raise this as an issue there and send in a pull request.

Thanks,
alex

On 3 July 2017 at 16:39, Alex Harvey <ale...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I write about this question I asked at Stack Overflow here:
> stackoverflow.com/questions/44870065/stubbing-file-tests-
> in-shunit2/44870101
>
> As pointed out in that post, it is possible to stub the shell file tests
> using code like:
>
> [() {
>   case "$*" in
>   "-x /usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm")
>     false
>     ;;
>   esac
> }
>
>
> Unfortunately, this breaks shUnit2 itself.
>
> It is suggested in the above that this issue could be avoided if all calls
> to external commands in shUnit2 were prefixed by command:
>
> E.g. instead of (on line 17)
>
> [ -n "${SHUNIT_VERSION:-}" ] && exit 0
>
>
> we would have
>
> command [ -n "${SHUNIT_VERSION:-}" ] && exit 0
>
>
> I tested this - and applied to a few other commands that a user might want
> to stub, like rm, mkdir, cat etc.
>
> Is it possible for me to send in a patch? Does anyone see any potential
> issue with what I am proposing here?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
>
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