feature request: subunit2junitxml

[Robert Collins]

Junit has an xml format used for running java stuff in a subprocess.
Folk using subunit in a hudson environment would benefit by being able
to coerce a stream to that format (and necessarily divert passthrough
content to stderr or something similar).

 affects subunit
 importance wishlist
 status triaged

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[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Further details - it looks like hudson wants xml files on disk, not a
stream. This is fine.

We could use - or perhaps consider for inspiration -
http://www.rittau.org/python/cruisecontrol/ - the python there is
awkward, but the actual xml formatting considerations are probably the
important bits (maybe 1/5th of the file).

http://nosexunit.sourceforge.net/ also has support for xml, but is a
massive plugin, not a simple 'get xml shit going' component, I doubt
that it would be desirable as a dependency.

-Rob

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 00:49 +0000, Robert Collins wrote:
> Further details - it looks like hudson wants xml files on disk, not a
> stream. This is fine.
>
> We could use - or perhaps consider for inspiration -
> http://www.rittau.org/python/cruisecontrol/ - the python there is
> awkward, but the actual xml formatting considerations are probably the
> important bits (maybe 1/5th of the file).
>
> http://nosexunit.sourceforge.net/ also has support for xml, but is a
> massive plugin, not a simple 'get xml shit going' component, I doubt
> that it would be desirable as a dependency.

Neither of these were particularly up to date or trivially reusable.
I've written a new minimal TestResult object which can be easily reused.
That is at https://launchpad.net/pyjunitxml, and there is a new branch
of subunit up at lp:~lifeless/subunit/subunit2junitxml which uses this
to do junit xml conversions.

Hudson integration will want to pipe the output of subunit2junitxml to a
file on disk.

 status fixcommitted

-Rob