438726 - Test news subscription code

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, task)

Description

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Attachment: Alpha version.

Test the subscription code for news. This is an area where some minor regressions have occurred in the past (most notably becoming unable to subscribe to `+').

Basic tests:
* Subscribe works.
* Unsubscribe works.
* Authentication before subscription works (needs authentication of NNTP first)
* The new groups stuff works
* Subscription search works

Fixed subscription bugs:
bug 6031 -- macs don't like newsgroups > 32 characters
bug 50059 -- Subscription doesn't reflect in folder pane
bug 68303 -- Unsubscription doesn't work with i18n
bug 141628 -- Newsgroups starting with '.' (also cf. 69231 and 123560)
  (Summary: if there's a group after it, ignore the .; if just .'s, ignore)
bug 190946 -- Refreshing newsgroups does not download all groups
bug 195440 -- Crash when cancel in download group list
bug 238688 -- Can't subscribe to newsgroups with '+'
  (This is actually a problem with the subscribe UI dialog and not back code).

In the current state, authenticated subscription can't be tested, nor can bug 238688; bug 195440 requires some hackery to have LIST call a cancel subscribe function (subclass and override).

Attached is my starting prototype; it doesn't test everything yet, though.