Test framework for plugins

SRC/Makefile.am

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ DOCS=DETAILS PLUGINS
 SUBDIRS=plugins
 
 TESTS=test-echoping-local test-echoping-remote 
-MORE_TESTS=test-echoping-proxy test-echoping-icp test-echoping-crypto test-echoping-tos test-echoping-ipv6 test-echoping-idn
+MORE_TESTS=test-echoping-proxy test-echoping-icp test-echoping-crypto test-echoping-tos test-echoping-ipv6 test-echoping-idn test-echoping-plugins
 
 test: check
 tests: check

SRC/PLUGINS

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ void start_raw ()
 int execute ()
   Connects and do whatever the protocol requires. It is called once
   per iteration. It returns >=0 if it succeeds, -1 if it failed
-  temporarily (so echoping will continue its loop) and -2 if it failes
+  temporarily (so echoping will continue its loop) and -2 if it failed
   permanently (so echoping will stop the iteration).
 
 void terminate ()
@@ -53,4 +53,7 @@ simplest which still does something useful.
 The documentation of the plugin should be in a manual page named
 echoping_PLUGINNAME. See the above plugins for examples.
 
+You can write a shell script named test.sh in the plugin directory to
+test the plugin. test-echoping-plugins will execute it.
+
 $Id$

SRC/plugins/whois/test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# $Id$
+
+../../echoping -m whois -v whois.nic.fr --dump echoping.fr # Does not exist
+../../echoping -m whois -v whois.nic.fr --dump nic.fr # Exists

SRC/test-echoping-plugins

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# $Id$
+
+echo ""
+echo "Since this tests tries remote servers, a failure is not always "
+echo " echoping's fault: it may be a network problem."
+echo ""
+
+for plugin in `ls plugins`; do
+	if [ -d plugins/$plugin ]; then
+	    cd plugins/$plugin
+	    if [ -x test.sh ]; then
+		echo "Testing $plugin..."
+		sh ./test.sh
+		echo ""
+	    fi
+	    cd ../..
+	fi
+done