Re: chunked output

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 02:56  PM, Micah Martin wrote:

> By using chunked encoding I can make FitNesse do this.  But it means 
> that
> FIT will need to spit out the results as soon as it makes them.  FIT 
> needs
> chunked output.

In a previous fit-like testing framework I found it advantageous to 
process tables in other than sequential order. This was due to a quirk 
in the way the domain specialist chose to organize tables in her 
spreadsheet. If we find a good way to allow subclasses of the top level 
Fixture then we could see this again in Fit. A top level fixture could 
override doTables and do them any way it wanted.

I'm guessing by chunking Micah means that we write annotated html for 
each table as it is completed. This would be only one kind of progress 
indication that would be possible. Another would be some sort of event 
or callback as each cell is processed or each annotation is made. In 
java I would do this with some sort of Listener interface. What would 
other implementations do?


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