Re: chunked output

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From: "Ward Cunningham" <[email protected]>
To: "FIT Developers" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Fit-dev] 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?

Listener would do fine by me.  I don't know that it would do fine
by Fitnesse, though. The interface there is through stdin/stdout/sdterr,
so I'd assume I'd need some kind of marshal,  unmarshal interface.

Micah?

John Roth


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