Add AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute to nunit.framework assembly to allow use in medium trust scenarios

[Michael Ketting]

/well, it's not a bug, it's a feature request/

Please consder adding the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute to the nunit.framework assembly. We're running certain integration tests in a medium trust scenario to ensure compatibility of our library in these cases and right now, have to make a custom build of nunit.framework to enable this. The only alternative is to forgo the nunit asserations, but we've really come to like them ;)

Regards, Michael

[Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)]

Is it only the framework assembly that requires this for your purposes?

[Michael Ketting (michael-ketting)]

Hi Charlie!

Yes, the only immediate need is the nunit.framework assembly. We're using reflection to discover the TestFixtures and Test-methods since our tests are simple enough and don't take advantage of the more sophisticated nunit features.

Regarding the other assemlies: I've taken a quick look around and yes, it would be nice if you would also mark nunit.core.interfaces, nunit.core, and nunit.util as partially trusted. In the end, a nice, attribute (or the likes) syntax would be great, with which one could specify a test fixture to run in a partially trusted sandbox with a set of permissions specified by the test author. From the (very quick) look of it, RemoteTestRunner might actually be already half-way there. If there's time, we'll likely take a closer look at it and see if it's possible to come up with either an extension or a non-intrusive patch.

Thanks, Michael