The new orderly_compare_packets function takes in two packet IDs and produces a diff of the two packets' contents. This includes a comparison of both the packets' metadata and of their files. The actual diff of the files is computed using the diffobj package.
A parameter of the function can be used to control which components of the packets are considered in the comparison, and take be one of "everything", "metadata", "files" and "artefacts".
This feature was requested as part of the epireview project, where one report's implementation got very messy and needs refactoring, but in the absence of any way of comparing two runs of the same report it is difficult to determine whether the refactor has any unexpected effect on the output.
The new
orderly_compare_packetsfunction takes in two packet IDs and produces a diff of the two packets' contents. This includes a comparison of both the packets' metadata and of their files. The actual diff of the files is computed using the diffobj package.A parameter of the function can be used to control which components of the packets are considered in the comparison, and take be one of "everything", "metadata", "files" and "artefacts".
This feature was requested as part of the epireview project, where one report's implementation got very messy and needs refactoring, but in the absence of any way of comparing two runs of the same report it is difficult to determine whether the refactor has any unexpected effect on the output.