[qmtest] how to set up resources for tests

[Mark Mitchell]

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> A resource is definitely what you want here.  The documentation is a 
>> bit lacking, but a resource class is very much like a test class.    
>> The temporary.TempDirectoryResource class that comes with QMTest is a 
>> good example of a resource class.
> 
> 
> That's good to know, thanks. Subclassing a Resource to compile me
> test applet looks simple enough. My question was more aimed at how
> to declare (to the database / test classes) this resource as a
> dependency. (I'm using my own database / test classes, so I'd like
> to know the API, not any GUI / xml way to do it).

The TestDescriptor returned by your Database.GetTest method should have
an argument called "resources" that is a sequence of resource names, 
like [ "foo.bar", "baz" ].

You can look at XMLDatabase.__ParseTestDocument to see how that works; 
look at where it sets up arguments["resources"].

Let me know if I still didn't answer the question! :-)

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