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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.
Saturday April 05, 2008
04:47 AM
Oslo: TAP Diagnostics
Sitting in Oslo right now. We are now nailing down the new YAML diagnostic syntax. Tentatively we have something like this:
TAP version 14
1..4
ok 1 - Input file opened
not ok 2 - First line of the input valid
---
results:
have: 'Flirble'
want: 'Fnible'
severity: fail
file: t/foo.t
line: 12
tags:
- IO
- config
source: is $line[0], 'Fnible', 'First line of the input valid';
...
There are other keys like 'timestamp', url', 'display' and similar that will likely be included. All are optional.
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YAML (Score:1)
Please make sure to specify that the diagnostics have to conform to the YAML Tiny [cpan.org] subset of YAML.
Re: (Score:2)
Why? Do recall that this is also be allowed for other languages with different data structures with different serialization requirements.
Re: (Score:1)
Precisely. YAML is not suitable for high-fidelity serialisation. You really want eg. Data::Dump::Streamer if your data structures are tricky.
However, writing a YAML parser is a much bigger job than writing a TAP parser. Parsing YAML Tiny is on par with parsing TAP, and the dialect is perfectly sufficient for modest serialisation needs.
So demanding a full YAML parser to parse TAP won’t provide substantial benefit but may hamper adoption of TAP.