Re: [libvirt] test driver for interface config
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:35 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Even though its doing a passthrough to netcf library, the netcf
driver
would still need to parse the XML in accordance with libvirt
defined schema. It just happens that netcf uses the same XML
format, so it can then convert it back into XML and pass it on
through to netcf.
While that is still the case (libvirt interafce XML == netcf XML), it
makes more sense to exercise as much of netcf as possible in the tests.
The 'root' argument to ncf_init makes that possible, and if there are
other things needed, we should add it to netcf, and exercise as many as
the same code paths as non-test uses will as possible.
The test driver wouldn't call anything in netcf. It is intended
to
be an entirely self-contained in-memory impl of the APIs with all the
semantics required by the public APIs.
Given that the libvirt API is just pass-through for now, that would test
much less of the 'live' code than we can and should exercise.
David