"Doctest"-style tests

[pnhofmann]

How about implementing something like python doctest:

Basically, if there is a command like movie director:

~> What can i do for you?
movie director lord of the rings
Peter Jackson

Copy paste above output into the doc-string - so it looks like:

@plugin(network=True)
def movie_director(jarvis, movie):
    """
    prints director of movie

    ~> What can i do for you?
    movie director lord of the rings
    Peter Jackson
    """

    data = main(jarvis, movie)
    if data is not None:
        for d in data['director']:
            jarvis.say(d['name'])

And have some test-routine to parse the docstring and check if "movie director lord of the rings" really returns "Peter Jackson".

Advantages:

• Add tests for commands which have none in ~10 seconds
• Detect platform incompatibilities (compare #390)
• Fast detection of embarrassing typos (I commonly make - compare #392)
• Detect upstream incompatibility / API changes (e.g. if imdb api changes and such movie cast does not work any more)

[tuhinmallick]

Is this issue still open, if yes i would like to work on it

[Akul2010]

I think it's been lost to time.

[pnhofmann]

Sorry, I thought I answered this.

@tuhinmallick This was basically an idea I had 4 years ago. Never implemented it and I don't even know if it's a good idea.

But if you want to give it a try - sure!

Just don't consider it as something that "has" to be implemented or even "has" to look like how I described it here.