[kea-dev] How to properly test callouts?

[Marcin Wyszynski]

I submitted a pull request on GitHub to expose CalloutManager for our testing purposes.

Best,
Marcin

On 5 November 2014 at 11:08:39, Francis Dupont (fdupont at isc.org) wrote:
> > There is a good example of the hooks library, that we have
> > implemented for our needs, in the source code. It is located in
> > src/hooks/dhcp/user_chk. It comes along with the suitable
> > Makefile.am which builds it as a shared library.
> 
> => in fact it is a loadable module, not a shared library even on
> systems using ELF they look the same (but not on OS X for instance).
> 
> > It also has a bunch of unit tests for individual C++ classes and
> > methods. I think it will be best for you to start from there.
> 
> => unfortunately the unit tests don't load the module:
> - in old code the module source files are compiled in
> 
> - in current (master / #3629) code the module is linked with the unit tests
> 
> - in future (#3631 fix) code the module source files are collected
> into a convenience archive which is linked with both the module
> and the unit tests (the idea of the archive is to compile these files
> once)
> 
> So there is currently no test code which loads the module the way
> it is supposed to be loaded, i.e., via dlopen(). Note there is a
> ticket (#3633) still opened about this mess (it was for an issue
> introduced by #3629, fixed by #3631 but very related).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Francis Dupont 
> 
> PS: I wrote a lot of PKCS#11 code which is explicitely specified to
> be a module, both because there is no choice on Windows (loadable module ==
> dynamically linked shared object == DLL) and because it makes very easy
> to restrict the entry points to a strictly limited list.
> PPS: there are unit tests loading modules but in another place:
> src/lib/hooks/test
>