Provide Test Framework for plugins

[hannesrauhe]

The framework should have two purposes:

• automatic testing
• development help (like the standalone thing in the plugin interface with the additional option too trigger a call to the plugin)

[entropia1]

Just dropping my current thoughts, because I would definitely profit from some testing facilities while developing private messages. What I would need is a "dummy lunch server" whose behavior I can manipulate. It should also contain dummy peers. For example, I would use it to simulate delayed ACKs, receive errors or simply messages to me. Maybe it's enough to replace get_server to return a class that can be user defined. However, this still sound like a lot of work, so I'm not sure if I will ever implement it.

[hannesrauhe]

What if we just replaced the socket with a queue?

With an additional plugin we could manually add messages, script message streams and trigger them.

[entropia1]

I'm not sure whether I will be able to intercept / delay certain messages using your proposal? Is there any difference to just sending the message to yourself right now?

[hannesrauhe]

You can manipulate the IP.

[hannesrauhe]

But you are right. You cannot model responses by this.