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@ably-labs/uts-pubsub

v0.0.2

Published

Unified test

Downloads

4

Readme

Unified Test Suite For Ably SDKs

The idea of the project is to provide a standardized testing mechanism across all supported SDKs. This can greatly benefit SDK development and maintenance processes. For more information, you can find it here: https://ably.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDK/pages/2825945127/SDKs+Unified+Test+Suite.

Note: Right now project on research and proof-of-concept state, more information: https://ably.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDK/pages/2833220568/Unified+Test+Suite+Research.

Implementation

It has two main parts:

  • Test Suite
  • SDK Adapter

Test Suite - implements Ably client using JSON-RPC calls, the main goal is to make it public interface exactly the same as Ably-js

SDK Adapter - JSON-RPC bindings for the actual SDK

Part of Test Suite is special server, that I called dispatcher. Dispatcher - Websocket Server that holds Test Suite and SDK Adapter communication.

We have 3 different types of processes required for unified test suites to run and their relationship is as follows:

  1. Long-running WebSocket server (called Dispatcher):

    • This entity runs continuously during testing, accepting WebSocket connections from both the Test Suite and SDK Adapters.
  2. Test Suite tests - launches mocha with tests covering aTest Suite tests:

    • This process launches Mocha with tests that cover all items from the specification. Essentially, this part is currently repeated in every existing SDK. The Test Suite initiates RPC requests. To successfully complete, an SDK Adapter needs to be registered in the Dispatcher. This process performs necessary tests, provides a test report, and then exits.
  3. SDK Adapter:

    • The SDK Adapter connects to the Dispatcher via websockets and enables the calling of Ably client methods. Once the Test Suite finishes, you can close the SDK Adapter as well.

What are the difficulties

Blocking calls

A lot of methods are sync in the origin SDK and I don’t wanted to make any changes to the SDK and because JS is single-threaded it’s challenging to do. I tried to use deasync package to make it work, but it doesn’t work very well, especially with Websockets. That’s why I created special HTTP-endpoint that works over Websocket, and on Test Suite side I use blocking HTTP-call sync-request.

Subscriptions

For subscription we need to invoke our Test Suite with the callback, so basically both Test Suite and SDK Adapter have to be both RPC clients and servers. It’s very well aligned with Websockets. To make it work I created special dispatcher in Test Suite. Dispatcher is a Websocket Server, it holds connections and make RPC communication between Test Suite and SDK Adapter.