org.apache.commons.latka
Class Latka

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.latka.Latka

public class Latka
extends Object

This is the primary class for executing Latka functional tests. The main(String aargs[]) class provides a convenient command-line interface for executing single tests. See the Latka documentation for details on command-line usage. There is also a webapp-based Latka interface.

Version:

$Revision: 155424 $

Author:

Morgan Delagrange, dIon Gillard

See Also:

Suite, LatkaProperties

Field Summary

protected boolean	_isValidating whether xml parsing is validating or not
protected static org.apache.log4j.Category	_log log4j category for logged output
protected Properties	_props Latka configuration variables
protected URL	_reportStylesheetUrl XSL stylesheet url to use when generating XML

Constructor Summary

Latka()

Method Summary

protected org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyContext	buildJellyContext()
protected void	logXML(String xml) Use this method to log XML generated by the XMLReporter class.
static void	main(String[] args) Execute a single test suite via the command line interface.
protected void	runCommandLine(String[] args) Processes the command line arguments, executes a single test.
void	runTests(Suite suite, LatkaEventListener listener) Execute a single Latka test suite.
void	setReportStylesheet(URL url) Set the URL to be used when transforming XML generated by the XMLReporter
void	setValidating(boolean isValidating) Set whether or not Latka will validate the XML in each test.
String	transformXML(String xml) Transform the XML generated by the XMLReporter using the default stylesheet.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

_isValidating

protected boolean _isValidating

whether xml parsing is validating or not

_reportStylesheetUrl

protected URL _reportStylesheetUrl

XSL stylesheet url to use when generating XML

_log

protected static final org.apache.log4j.Category _log

log4j category for logged output

_props

protected Properties _props

Latka configuration variables

Constructor Detail

Latka

public Latka()

Method Detail

runTests

public void runTests(Suite suite,
                     LatkaEventListener listener)
              throws LatkaException

Execute a single Latka test suite. The Latka event listner will receive all the events generated during the test. The Latka packages contain an implmentation of LatkaEventInfo which can generate an XML report according to a standard DTD (see documentation).

Parameters:

suite - test suite to execute

listener - target for test events

Throws:

LatkaException - when any internal error occurs

See Also:

XML-based implementation of LatkaEventListener

buildJellyContext

protected org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyContext buildJellyContext()

setValidating

public void setValidating(boolean isValidating)

Set whether or not Latka will validate the XML in each test.

Parameters:

isValidating - whether or not to validate XML

setReportStylesheet

public void setReportStylesheet(URL url)

Set the URL to be used when transforming XML generated by the XMLReporter

Parameters:

url - a valid URL referencing a stylesheet

logXML

protected void logXML(String xml)
               throws IOException

Use this method to log XML generated by the XMLReporter class.

Parameters:

xml - XML to be logged

Throws:

IOException - if the XML could not be written to the filesystem

transformXML

public String transformXML(String xml)
                    throws LatkaException

Transform the XML generated by the XMLReporter using the default stylesheet.

Parameters:

xml - XML generated by XMLReporter

Returns:

transformed report

Throws:

LatkaException - if the XML could not be transformed

runCommandLine

protected void runCommandLine(String[] args)
                       throws LatkaException

Processes the command line arguments, executes a single test. and processes the resulting report. Command line usage is described in the LATKA_USAGE constant.

Parameters:

args - arguments passed into the main(String[]) method

Throws:

LatkaException - if any problems are encountered during the execution of the tests

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Execute a single test suite via the command line interface. See the Latka documentation for detailed usage instructions. The Java process will return a 0 if all tests succeed and a 1 if any fail or there is an unrecoverable error in the test execution.

Parameters:

args - arguments containing the test suite location and any properties or property file references