Re: Service advertising versus QA

[Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/28/2014 08:03 PM, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > I think that the tests should be able to
> > tolerate randomly discovered services on other machines. I ran into the
> > same problem when working up a test for the new active probing. The
> > solution ended up being more aggressive filtering. I'll have a look at
> > these tests from the same point of view.
> OK, sounds good.  In my case here, with the Avahi tests there's remote
> IP addresses in the output, so the qa/common.filter _host_to_ipaddr()
> function might prove handy - I guess we could pick out the local host
> IP that way, and discard all others?  ( aaand that function looks like
> it needs some IPv6 love :] ).
Since:

- there could be an indeterminate number of remote services discovered
- the host machine could have more than one active network interface
- pmproxy and/or pmwebd services may or may not be running on the local 
machine at the time of the test
I went the route of filtering out the urls completely and relying on the 
headers (e.g. "Discovered pmcd servers") and the exit code from pmfind 
for indication that results were found.
Dave