Developer's Manual
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############ Introduction ############
CSL ships with a large bundle of test data for use in the development and maintenance of CSL processors. The tests begin as individual human-friendly fixtures written in a special format, shown in the sample file immediately below. Tests are prepared for use by grinding them into a machine-friendly form (JSON). The JSON form of tests can be run against processors in a test-bed environment with processor-specific tools prepared for that purpose.
################### Preparing the tests ###################
Tests can be validated and prepared (or "compiled") using
the ./processor.py
script in the root
directory of the archive. The script accepts the following
options:
--help
:
List the script options with a brief description
of each and exit
--cranky
validate style code for testing against the
CSL schema using the jing
XML tool.
--grind
Force grinding of human-readable test code into machine-
readable form.
--verbose
Display test names during processing.
############## Fixture layout ##############
The human-readable version of each test fixture is composed in
the format below. The five sections MODE
,
RESULT
, CSL
and INPUT
are required, and may be
arranged in any order within the fixture file. As the
sample below illustrates, text outside of the section
delimiters is ignored. The sample file below shows the
layout of a typical fixture. See the explanations of
the individual sections further below for information on
the usage of each.
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.. admonition:: Hint
Four additional sections are available for special
purposes. The optional sections
``BIBENTRIES``, ``BIBSECTION``, ``CITATIONS`` and ``CITATION-ITEMS``
are also explained below.
.. sourcecode:: text
===== MODE =====>> citation <<===== MODE =====<<
===== RESULT =====>> John Doe <<===== RESULT =====<<
===== CSL =====>> <style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0">
2009-08-10T04:49:00+09:00 <<===== CSL =====<<
===== INPUT =====>> [ { "id":"ID-1", "type": "book", "author": [ { "name":"Doe, John" } ], "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ "1965", "6", "1" ] ] } } ] <<===== INPUT =====<<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Required sections ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The following four sections (MODE
, CSL
, INPUT
, RESULT
)
are required in all test fixtures.
!!!! MODE !!!!
A single string tells whether to test citation
or bibliography
output. In the former case, the test will be performed using
the makeCitationCluster()
command if a CITATION-ITEMS
area is
included in the test fixture, or if neither that nor a CITATIONS
area is included. If a CITATIONS
area is included,
citation
mode uses the processCitationCluster
command.
In the case of bibliography
mode, the bibliography generation
command should be used, with output possibly filtered by the conditions
specified in a BIBSECTION
area:
.. sourcecode:: text
===== MODE =====>> citation <<===== MODE =====<<
!!! CSL !!!
The code to be used in the test must be valid as a complete, if minimal, CSL style:
.. sourcecode:: text
===== CSL =====>> <style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0">
2009-08-10T04:49:00+09:00 <citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1">
<<===== CSL =====<<
!!!!! INPUT !!!!!
The INPUT
section provides the item data to be registered
in the processor. In a simple test fixture that contains
none of the optional areas BIBENTRIES
, BIBSECTION
CITATIONS
or CITATION-ITEMS
,
a citation or bibliography is requested for all of the
items in the INPUT
section (where one of those two
optional sections is included, the testing behavior is slightly
different; see the discussion of the relevant sections below
for details):
.. sourcecode:: text
===== INPUT =====>> [ { "id":"ID-1", "author": [ { "name":"Noakes, John" }, { "name":"Doe, John" }, { "name":"Roe, Jane" } ], "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2005 ] ] } }, { "id":"ID-2", "author": [ { "name":"Stoakes, Richard" } ], "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 1898 ] ] } } ] <<===== INPUT =====<<
!!!!!! RESULT !!!!!!
A string to compare with the citation or bibliography output received from the processor.
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===== RESULT =====>> (Noakes, et al. 2005; Stoakes 1898) <<===== RESULT =====<<
Note that in bibliography
mode, the HTML string output
used for testing will be affixed with a standard set of
wrapper tags, which must be written into the result string
used for comparison:
.. sourcecode:: text
===== RESULT =====>>
J. Noakes, J. Doe, J. Roe (2005)R. Stoakes (1898)<<===== RESULT =====<<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Optional sections ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Four optional sections are available for use in a fixture to exercise special aspects of processor behavior.
!!!!!!!!!! BIBENTRIES !!!!!!!!!!
The citeproc-js
processor maintains a persistent internal registry
of citation data, and permits the addition, deletion and rearrangement
of registered items. The behavior of the processor across a series of
update transactions can be tested by including BIBENTRIES
section.
When included, the section should consist of a two-tier list,
consisting of discrete lists of IDs, which must correspond to items
registered in the INPUT
section:
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.. admonition:: Hint
The test of output will be run after first updating the
processor's internal registry to reflect each of the
requested citation sets, and should correctly reflect the
last in the series.
.. sourcecode:: text
===== BIBENTRIES =====>> [ [ "ITEM-1", "ITEM-2", "ITEM-3", "ITEM-4", "ITEM-5" ], [ "ITEM-1", "ITEM-4", "ITEM-5" ] ] <<===== BIBENTRIES =====<<
!!!!!!!!!! BIBSECTION !!!!!!!!!!
When bibliography
mode is used, a BIBSECTION
area
can be used to limit the output of the bibliography. The
filtering logic is described below, but first an example
of the way it looks in a test fixture:
.. sourcecode:: text
===== BIBSECTION =====>> { "include" : [ { "field" : "categories", "value" : "classical" } ], "quash" : [ { "field" : "type", "value" : "manuscript" }, { "field" : "issued", "value" : "" } ] } <<===== BIBSECTION =====<<
Filtering parameters for bibliography output are specified in a JSON object
that may contain
one of the objects select
, include
or exclude
, and
optionally an additional quash
object. Each of these four objects
is an array containing one or more objects with field
and value
attributes, each with a simple string value (see the examples below).
The matching behavior for each of the four object types, with accompanying
input examples, is as follows:
select
For each item in the bibliography, try every match object in the array against
the item, and include the item if, and only if, all of the objects match.
.. admonition:: Hint
The target field in the data items registered in the processor may either be a string or an array. In the latter case, an array containing a value identical to the relevant value is treated as a match.
.. sourcecode:: js
var myarg = { "select" : [ { "field" : "type", "value" : "book" }, { "field" : "categories", "value" : "1990s" } ] }
var mybib = cp.makeBibliography(myarg);
include
Try every match object in the array against the item, and include the
item if any of the objects match.
.. sourcecode:: js
var myarg = { "include" : [ { "field" : "type", "value" : "book" } ] }
var mybib = cp.makeBibliography(myarg);
exclude
Include the item if none of the objects match.
.. sourcecode:: js
var myarg = { "exclude" : [ { "field" : "type", "value" : "legal_case" }, { "field" : "type", "value" : "legislation" } ] }
var mybib = cp.makeBibliography(myarg);
quash
Regardless of the result from select
, include
or exclude
,
skip the item if all of the objects match.
.. admonition:: Hint
An empty string given as the field value will match items for which that field is missing or has a nil value.
.. sourcecode:: js
var myarg = { "include" : [ { "field" : "categories", "value" : "classical" } ], "quash" : [ { "field" : "type", "value" : "manuscript" }, { "field" : "issued", "value" : "" } ] }
var mybib = cp.makeBibliography(myarg);
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CITATION-ITEMS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When testing in citation
mode, the data items to be
processed are ordinarily rendered as a single citation.
To test operations that depend upon or may be affected
by the internal state of the processor across a session,
either a CITATION-ITEMS
or a CITATIONS
section
may be included in the test fixture (only one may be used
in a single test fixture).
CITATION-ITEMS
is the simpler of the two, used in
most of the standard processor formatting test fixtures.
The data input in this area should consist of a list array
of cite data, where each cite consists of a Javascript object
containing, at least, item ID.
A single citation is composed of a list of cites, and
the full entry consists of a list of such citations:
.. sourcecode:: text
===== CITATION-ITEMS =====>> [ [ {"id": "ITEM-1"} ], [ {"id": "ITEM-2", "label": "page", "locator": "23"}, {"id":"ITEM-3"} ] ] <<===== CITATION-ITEMS =====<<
!!!!!!!!! CITATIONS !!!!!!!!!
A CITATIONS
area can be used (instead of CITATION-ITEMS
)
to mimic a series of interactions with a word processor plugin.
In this case, the area should contain a list array of citation
data objects with explicit citationID
values and ID list values
for subsequent invocations of the processCitationCluster()
command,
like the following:
.. sourcecode:: text
===== CITATIONS =====>> [ [ { "citationID": "CITATION-1", "citationItems": [ { "id": "ITEM-1" } ], "properties": { "noteIndex": 1 } }, [], [] ], [ { "citationID": "CITATION-2", "citationItems": [ { "id": "ITEM-2", "locator": 15 }, { "id": "ITEM-3" } ], "properties": { "noteIndex": 2 } }, [ [ "CITATION-1", 1 ] ], [] ] ] <<===== CITATIONS =====<<