Re: chunked output

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 12:52  PM, Micah Martin wrote:

> FitFilter could be a much better solution to running suites.  Currently
> FitFilter works like this:
> 1. html is recieved from stdin
> 2. read from stdin until EOF
> 3. process
> 4. write results to stdout
> 5. exit

Bjorn Freeman-Benson and I cooked up something along these lines for 
the Eclipse Fitster plugin. Using Java serialization we would send 
tables to a custom runner and read tables and counts back. Our approach 
to progress indication was to say that the custom runner could send 
count objects at its convenience and we would update the display.

We also communicated over a socket, not standard in/out. I was 
following Bjorn's lead with this decision and don't know what the 
tradeoffs are.

(Is FitFilter better named FilterRunner? Would it be the same as 
FileRunner if FileRunner took "-" to indicate standard in/out as file 
names?)

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