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On 30 January 2014 10:29, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:


>> would (worker-N) be sufficient? Or do you want *'s/x's specifically?
>
> So if we had worker-N we could play with a filter above that layer to do
> UI formatting.
>
> Realistically I had a stream with enough metadata, and preferably a
> solid parsing lib for that stream (so I don't screw that part up), then
> we could handle the UI in a filter.
>
> Honestly, UX here is going to require the ability to iterate and
> experiment. In much the same way that we've got a completely
> disconnected visualization system for zuul from zuul itself, and only
> rarely do we need to touch zuul proper to improve status.openstack.org.

Right - thats what subunit *is* - its decoupling :).

>>> Question #2: where would this be injectable in the stream of testtools /
>>> subunit / testr / unittest?
>>
>> Long term I defintely want a richer UI in testr, but right now the
>> most appropriate thing to do is to prototype the UI you need locally.
>
> Sounds great. Again if we had some of the piece parts, I could do the
> rest of the UI locally, just diving down through the layers made me
> realize I really needed to figure out where to hook into, as it wasn't
> entirely clear (at least to me).

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70021/

both demonstrates the glue (subunit is the wire protocol, testtools
has the model level functions) and approximates what you've asked for
as a first iteration.

-Rob


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