[tclwebtest] web interface

[Tilmann S. <ti...@ti...>]

Grzegorz, I hope it's ok to continue this on the list:

* Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gr...@ef...> [20030113 16:36]:
> > If you are interested in doing any of these tasks or doing something
> > else - cool! Let me know, so that we don't duplicate efforts.
> 
> At the moment I'm working on integrating tclwebtest with a web
> interface, this could be made opensource too, depending on how
> it works. So for example I would like to have the documentation
> generated online, without temporary files. What would you change
> from the current scripts to do so?

Having the documentation online wouldn't be a big problem when called
from within openacs i suppose, since that's what the functions that I
ripped from there do. Look at
http://openacs.org/api-doc/proc-view?proc=api%5fproc%5fdocumentation
to see it in action, describing itself.

If you are talking about a web interface in the sense that you can
type in test code in a textarea and have it executed upon form submit,
then you might be interested in my openacs package that does that. If
yes I'll upload it to the tclwebtest site. I can't set up a demo
because it opens the web server to any user because any tcl code can
be executed.

> I thought about modifying generated_docs.test to be a function call
> returning the html, but then I realiced it's parsed by tclwebtest,
> and looks like integration would need big changes. I'll tell you
> if I get to do something.

Its possible to replicate what is happening in generated_docs.test,
e.g. in tclsh:

tils@tp:~$ tclsh
tclsh8.3 [~]cd tclwebtest
tclsh8.3 [~/tclwebtest]source lib/from_openacs.tcl
tclsh8.3 [~/tclwebtest]source lib/tclwebtest.tcl
tclsh8.3 [~/tclwebtest]array set doc_elements $api_proc_doc(tclwebtest::debug)
tclsh8.3 [~/tclwebtest]api_proc_documentation tclwebtest::debug
<h3>tclwebtest::debug (public)</h3><pre>tclwebtest::debug [ -lib ]
<i>msg</i></pre>
<blockquote>
Emit the message to stdout, even if logging output is redirected to
    a file. Intended to be used when writing tests. Its only advantage
    over using puts is that it does not have to be deleted when
    writing
    the test is finished.

<p>
<dl>
<dt><b>Switches:</b></dt><dd>
<b>-lib</b> (boolean) (optional)<br>
</dd>
<dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt><dd>
<b>msg</b><br>
</dd>
</dl></blockquote>
tclsh8.3 [~/tclwebtest]

It outputs html fine - is that what you meant?


cheers, til