Test generator, step 1 #638
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Note that for a CLI Application it is not necessary to boot a full symfony framework: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/single_command_tool.html php-representer is a single command application: https://github.com/exercism/php-representer/blob/main/main.php and https://github.com/exercism/php-representer/blob/main/src/Application.php |
Thanks for mentioning that. I am currently not sure if I want to make it a single command app or add some "update" command to ease syncing against problem specs. So I left it as is. I currently focus on functionality, to get experience with the approach. |
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The goal is to have a next step from POC to MVP. So we can discuss on direction and possible alternatives. And also to have something to experiment with and help with adding further exercises. |
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Will use configlet to get path to the canonical data cache.
Generating the exercise with configlet makes sure the cached is filled.
When running configlet with detailed output (-v d) and a command that requires problem specification data (e.g. info), it prints the location of the cache as the first line. To avoid an HTTP call, use the offline mode (-o). Pipe the output through 'head' to get the first line only, then 'cut' the 5th field to get the path only. configlet may fail when there is no cached data (offline mode), which tells us, that the exercise hasn't been generated before (the cache is required for that, too). Assemble the cache directory with the exercise location and if that's not there, we don't have a usable exercise slug or no access rights.
The test creation will move to its own class. Right now it is not used.
The flag `--no-configuration` is explicitly used in 'bin/tests.sh'. Running a test directly for making a new exercise works fine, too.
This is the first step towards #631
contribution/generator, so it is not installed in CIconfigletcached problem specification repository as information source/exercises/practice/${slug}/{PascalCaseSlug}.phpThere are still many TODOs marked in the code, especially making things more failsafe. But it can currently be used with most missing practice exercise, as far as have looked into.