Re: [cdt-dev] Proper way to get CDT test plugins

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ivan,

Thank you for clearing that up, I did misunderstand you to mean source
repos as opposed to p2 repos. The test plug-ins are not part of any p2
repo or part of API. Indeed many test plug-ins require the source as
Java files to be accessible (including CheckerTestCase's subclasses,
they call TestSourceReader.getContentsForTest() to get the test
snippets from the comments in the Java file).

While it certainly is technically feasible to publish the Java sources
+ test bundles, I don't think that there is the dev resource to
maintain that and I don't think that the CDT test code should ever be
API itself as it makes refactoring test code difficult.

TBH I have had this problem when providing custom CDT solutions to my
customers. I have simply copied (forked) the relevant test code for
those customers most of the time.

I hope that clarifies things.
Jonah

~~~
Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders Ltd.
www.kichwacoders.com


On 19 September 2017 at 00:50, Ivan Šeďo <ikoframe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jonah,
>
> thank you for the response. I was very unclear - I was thinking of (binary)
> plugins residing in p2 repositories. Yes, I know the CDT repository (which
> is also cloned as part of CDT Oomph project) contains the source code of
> those plugins. I was just wondering whether they are available already
> packaged. Maybe the CDT test packages are not of usual concern for
> developers developing on top of CDT (but not modifying CDT itself), but the
> packages also contain test-oriented API useful for developers extending CDT
> (such as Codan's CheckerTestCase).
>
> I usually clone also CDT sources because I learn about it by inspecting it.
> But sometimes I can't import the sources along my projects and therefore I
> miss the test plugins.
>
> Also, when I made my CDT-based projects Tycho-enabled so I could put them in
> CI, all plugins except the org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.tests and
> org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests are downloaded and resolved.
>
> I just thought that the core API concepts regarding testing (as mentioned
> Codan's CheckerTestCase) are part of the CDT SDK feature. But it seems they
> are not or I am doing something incorrectly.
>
> I hope this detailed explanation will more useful for sketching my issue.
>
> Regards,
> Ivan
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ivan,
>>
>> The test plug-ins you mentioned are in the same CDT repo (there is
>> only one repo[1]) as the rest of the code. You don't have to import
>> all the projects, but you should be able to find the ones you depend
>> on in there.
>>
>> If you have come back to CDT development after a long time away, you
>> may need to change how you handle your target platform. There is a
>> cdt.target[2] file that you can use to get your non-CDT dependencies
>> into your target platform.
>>
>> [1] http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/
>> [2]
>> http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/tree/releng/org.eclipse.cdt.target/cdt.target
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jonah
>> ~~~
>> Jonah Graham
>> Kichwa Coders Ltd.
>> www.kichwacoders.com
>>
>>
>> On 17 September 2017 at 17:30, Ivan Šeďo <ikoframe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > after some time I resumed my work built on Eclipse CDT and made it work
>> > against Oxygen including latest CDT. Now I have an error in my projects
>> > because it cannot resolve plugins such as org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests and
>> > org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.tests.
>> >
>> > If I check out along my projects also CDT using Oomph then the the
>> > mentioned
>> > dependencies are resolved.
>> >
>> > Is there any way of getting those plugins without checking the source of
>> > the
>> > whole CDT? I tried to look for some repositories that could contain test
>> > plugins and features but without success.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ivan
>> >
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