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authorGravatar Ton Voon <tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net> 2005-12-15 15:19:55 +0000
committerGravatar Ton Voon <tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net> 2005-12-15 15:19:55 +0000
commite03d87d8aef6701e7245b98800e67b64319bf7b2 (patch)
tree28b466594f6b6e33dd707d75625b016eb2d0edc1 /NPTest.pm
parent73b77a44c43960b6fcf8b3c29c1016ba1940aa89 (diff)
downloadmonitoring-plugins-e03d87d8aef6701e7245b98800e67b64319bf7b2.tar.gz
New 3 parameter version of getTestParameters. Updated check_disk.t to reflect.
Added notes re: testing in developer guidelines. git-svn-id: https://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk@1298 f882894a-f735-0410-b71e-b25c423dba1c
Diffstat (limited to 'NPTest.pm')
-rw-r--r--NPTest.pm53
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/NPTest.pm b/NPTest.pm
index 440e7343..4036a9d0 100644
--- a/NPTest.pm
+++ b/NPTest.pm
@@ -44,23 +44,17 @@ default via the C<use NPTest;> statement.
=over
-=item C<getTestParameter(...)>
+=item getTestParameter( "ENV_VARIABLE", $brief_description, $default )
-A flexible and user override-able method of collecting, storing and
-retrieving test parameters. This function allows the test harness
+This function allows the test harness
developer to interactively request test parameter information from the
-user, when the no means of obtaining the information automatically has
-been successful. The user is provided with the option of accepting
-test harness developer's default value for the parameter, if a suggested
-default is provided.
-
-User supplied responses are stored in an external (file-based)
-cache. These values are retrieved on subsequent runs alleviating the
-user of reconfirming the previous entered responses. The user is able
-to override the value of a parameter on any given run by setting the
-associated environment variable. These environment variable based
-overrides are not stored in the cache, allowing one-time and what-if
-based tests on the command line without polluting the cache.
+user. The user can accept the developer's default value or reply "none"
+which will then be returned as "" for the test to skip if appropriate.
+
+Responses are stored in an external, file-based
+cache so subsequent test runs will use these values. The user is able
+to change the values by amending the values in the file /var/tmp/NPTest.pm,
+or by setting the appropriate environment variable before running the test.
The option exists to store parameters in a scoped means, allowing a
test harness to a localise a parameter should the need arise. This
@@ -73,7 +67,7 @@ called "check_disk.t" requesting the parameter "mountpoint_valid", the
cache is first searched for "check_disk"/"mountpoint_valid", if this
fails, then a search is conducted for "mountpoint_valid".
-The facilitate quick testing setup, it is possible to accept all the
+To facilitate quick testing setup, it is possible to accept all the
developer provided defaults by setting the environment variable
"NPTEST_ACCEPTDEFAULT" to "1" (or any other perl truth value). Note
that, such defaults are not stored in the cache, as there is currently
@@ -306,7 +300,16 @@ sub skipMissingCmd
sub getTestParameter
{
- my( $param, $envvar, $default, $brief, $scoped ) = @_;
+ my( $param, $envvar, $default, $brief, $scoped );
+ my $new_style;
+ if (scalar @_ == 3) {
+ ($param, $brief, $default) = @_;
+ $envvar = $param;
+ $new_style = 1;
+ } else {
+ ( $param, $envvar, $default, $brief, $scoped ) = @_;
+ $new_style = 0;
+ }
# Apply default values for optional arguments
$scoped = ( defined( $scoped ) && $scoped );
@@ -319,8 +322,13 @@ sub getTestParameter
}
my $cachedValue = SearchCache( $param, $testharness );
- if ( defined( $cachedValue ) && $cachedValue )
+ if ( defined( $cachedValue ) )
{
+ # This save required to convert to new style because the key required is
+ # changing to the environment variable
+ if ($new_style == 0) {
+ SetCacheParameter( $envvar, undef, $cachedValue );
+ }
return $cachedValue;
}
@@ -339,9 +347,9 @@ sub getTestParameter
print STDERR "\n";
print STDERR "Test Harness : $testharness\n";
print STDERR "Test Parameter : $param\n";
- print STDERR "Environment Variable : $envvar\n";
+ print STDERR "Environment Variable : $envvar\n" if ($param ne $envvar);
print STDERR "Brief Description : $brief\n";
- print STDERR "Enter value ", ($defaultValid ? "[${default}]" : "[]"), " => ";
+ print STDERR "Enter value (or 'none') ", ($defaultValid ? "[${default}]" : "[]"), " => ";
$userResponse = <STDIN>;
$userResponse = "" if ! defined( $userResponse ); # Handle EOF
chomp( $userResponse );
@@ -353,6 +361,10 @@ sub getTestParameter
print STDERR "\n";
+ if ($userResponse =~ /^(na|none)$/) {
+ $userResponse = "";
+ }
+
# define all user responses at global scope
SetCacheParameter( $param, ( $scoped ? $testharness : undef ), $userResponse );
@@ -378,6 +390,7 @@ sub SearchCache
{
return $CACHE{$param};
}
+ return undef; # Need this to say "nothing found"
}
sub SetCacheParameter