[Rprotobuf-yada] unit tests

[Romain Francois]

The vignette refused to build for some reason, so I wiped it out (not 
very constructive way of doing things, ...).

We definitely need testing. I am still not 100% clear about garbage 
collection, finalizers and external pointers. unit testing would help me 
sleep at nights.

RUnit/svUnit, I don't really care. One plus for RUnit is that it has 
report generation which svUnit currently lacks. Did you get round to 
have a look at how google tests the C++ code ?


In terms of development, what I do now on the package is bring to R the 
C++ classes as external pointers, starting with the streams  :

$ grep setClass.*Stream pkg/R/*.R
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "ZeroCopyInputStream", representation(
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "ArrayInputStream", contains = 
"ZeroCopyInputStream" )
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "FileInputStream", contains = 
"ZeroCopyInputStream" )
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "ConnectionInputStream", contains = 
"ZeroCopyInputStream" )
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "ZeroCopyOutputStream", representation(
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "ArrayOutputStream", contains = 
"ZeroCopyInputStream" )
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "FileOutputStream", contains = 
"ZeroCopyInputStream" )
pkg/R/00classes.R:setClass( "ConnectionOutputStream", contains = 
"ZeroCopyOutputStream" )

mapping their c++ counterparts.
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/reference/cpp/google.protobuf.io.zero_copy_stream.html

This is more an experiment and a way of learning about how to do it. You 
don't need to use or know about these classes to use the package.

And it is quite a repetitive task, so I am starting to think about make 
some sort of code generator .... could be good for Rcpp as well

On 12/19/2009 02:56 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> So what is the story on unit tests?  I saw you removed the vignette; the
> Suggests on svUnit is still there. Can we / shall we add some tests?
>
> Dirk
>


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