[jboss-dev] Custom testsuite configs

[Dimitris Andreadis]

We should have done thing long ago. Every time we add/move a file the testsuite breaks.

Thanks Brian.

Brian Stansberry wrote:
> In testsuite/build.xml I see a bunch of instances of the following sort 
> of thing, where an attempt is made to create a config with a limited set 
> of items in deploy/:
> 
> <create-config baseconf="default" newconf="tomcat-federation">
>    <patternset>
>       <include name="conf/**"/>
>       <include name="deployers/**"/>
>       <include name="deploy/jbossweb.sar/**"/>
>       <include name="deploy/ROOT.war/**"/>
>       <include name="lib/**"/>
>       <include name="deploy/jmx-console.war/**"/>
>       <include name="deploy/jmx-invoker-service.xml"/>
>       <include name="deploy/hsqldb-ds.xml"/>
>       <include name="deploy/jbossjca-service.xml"/>
>       <include name="deploy/jboss-local-jdbc.rar"/>
>       <include name="deploy/jboss-jdbc-metadata.sar"/>
>       <include name="deploy/security*"/>
>    </patternset>
> </create-config>
> 
> This kind of thing is really fragile; e.g. this config will no longer 
> start since it's missing newly added stuff like 
> deploy/transaction-service.xml and deploy/remoting-service.xml.
> 
> Whenever I look at these, it seems the idea was to have a trimmed 
> deployment that starts faster. Not to actually exclude something in 
> order to test what happens when it isn't there. A couple seconds faster 
> start IMHO isn't worth the fragility.
> 
> I'm going to convert all these to this:
> 
> <patternset>
>    <include name="conf/**"/>
>    <include name="deployers/**"/>
>    <include name="deploy/**"/>
>    <include name="lib/**"/>
> </patternset>
> 
> I'll leave the previous detail config there, but commented out. If one 
> of these configs actually did want to exclude something, please add an 
> <exclude/> to make it explicit.
> 
> - Brian
> 
> P.S. I have a weird deja-vu sense of having done this before???
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