Generating Client Test Data
Requirements
Generate test requests and responses for Knora's routes, to be used in testing client code without the need for a running Knora instance.
Implementation
Client test data is generated as a side effect of running Knora's E2E tests.
E2E tests use ClientTestDataCollector to collect test API requests and
responses. The implementation of ClientTestDataCollector collects these
in a Redis hash. When the E2E tests have completed, the script
webapi/scripts/dump-client-test-data.sh saves the collected test data
in a Zip file. It then checks the filenames in the Zip file by comparing them
with the list in webapi/scripts/expected-client-test-data.txt.
Usage
On macOS, you will need to install Redis in order to have the redis-cli command-line tool:
brew install redis
To generate client test data, type:
make client-test-data
When the tests have finished running, you will find the file
client-test-data.zip in the current directory.
If generated client test data changes, run make client-test-data, then run
this script to update the list of expected test data files:
webapi/scripts/update-expected-client-test-data.sh client-test-data.zip