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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:11:24 -0700
From: Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: ADVICE REQUESTED: Fixing MessageBundleTest
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Hi David,

You might want to wrap the test in a custom Ant Task. These are 
described in the Ant manual: "Developing with Ant"->"Writing Your Own 
Task". You can then check the return status of the task and fail the 
build if appropriate.

Regards,
-Rick

David Van Couvering wrote:

> Hm, a build-time check.  I guess in a way it is a build-time issue.  
> Let me think about how I might do that, thanks for the idea.
>
> David
>
> Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
>
>> David Van Couvering wrote:
>>
>>> So, as Andrew very astutely pointed out, i18n/MessageBundleTest.java
>>> will not succeed when running against the jar files because it tries to
>>> load shared/common/reference/SQLState, which is not included in the jar
>>> files.  This problem also exists for MessageId.java, which this test
>>> also refers to and which also is not included in the jar files.
>>
>>
>> Does this need to be a test, could it be converted into a build time
>> check? Then there are no requirements for these classes to be in
>> derbytesting.jar. Also there is probably no requirement to run this test
>> on different platforms.
>>
>> I used to have something similar (pre-open source), that found messages
>> that existed but were never used.
>>
>> Dan.
>>