852207 - provide platform information (mozinfo) to tests in a nice format.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Testing :: Mozbase, defect)

Description

[Trevor Saunders (:tbsaunde)]

currently when tests need to do things specific to one  OS / OS version /debug or not people have to do anoying things like navigator.oscpu.startsWith("blah") which sucks, ted and jhammel think we could use mozinfo.json to make this nicer.

Comment 1

[Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur (:mihneadb)]

Could you please explain this better?

Comment 2

[Jeff Hammel]

I'm a bit unclear myself.  We're trying to add useful data to mozinfo;  what is to be added?

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I guess the summary wasn't clear here, the proposal was to make mozinfo available to the *JavaScript* bits of our test harnesses, so that in a Mochitest you could simply say if (mozinfo.os == "windows") { ... }

We currently have mozinfo available in the xpcshell Python harness (but not the JS part), so maybe that'd be an easy first target?

Comment 4

[Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)]

Attachment: Output mozinfo into a file as is

This patch output mozinfo as it is.
The output mozinfo does not completely match mozinfo.json in topobjdir because mozinfo.py updates its contents.

Comment 5

[Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)]

Comment on attachment 8590667 [details] [diff] [review]
Output mozinfo into a file as is

Forgot to set review request.

Comment 6

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Comment on attachment 8590667 [details] [diff] [review]
Output mozinfo into a file as is

Review of attachment 8590667 [details] [diff] [review]:
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I don't think this patch is related to this bug. If there is a missing feature you need in mozinfo, could you file a new bug please? That being said, I don't think this is something we need. It's easy enough for consumers to dump mozinfo.info to a file on their own if they need to.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

ahal: It seems that you fixed this in ?

changeset:   140196:a04093b3aaa4
user:        Andrew Halberstadt <[e-mail]>
date:        Fri Jul 26 14:40:04 2013 -0400
summary:     Bug 865349 - Refactor B2G mochitests off automation.py and onto mozbase, r=jgriffin,ted

Comment 8

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Yeah, this hasn't been an issue for a long time :).