[swift-dev] [SR-710][RFC] Automatically detecting XCTest test methods on Linux: Reflection? SourceKit?

[Daniel Dunbar]

> On May 9, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Brian Gesiak <modocache at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
> 
> Porting SourceKit to Linux seems like a reasonable solution to me. Still, there are 354 lines of code in tools/SourceKit that reference "XPC", so a Linux port will take more than a few lines of source code changes.
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> I imagine we'll need to insert some sort of shim layer that will use libxpc on OS X, and a hand-rolled solution for Linux. Alternatively, if anyone knows of a good open-source library that implements IPC for Linux (and that has a permissible license), that would be a great help here.
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> I've also seen the idea proposed that Apple could open-source libxpc, which we could then port to Linux. This would involve less work than installing a shim layer in SourceKit, then in addition implementing a Linux IPC library behind the shim. I don't know who I could talk about making this happen, but in any case, I filed a Radar:
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> * rdar://26187442
> * https://openradar.appspot.com/26187442 <https://openradar.appspot.com/26187442>
> > 2. Somehwat unrelated, but the compiler itself (`swiftc`) is not yet written in a way that it can be used from SourceKit.
> 
> Could you explain this further?

Basically, I just meant that SourceKit doesn't currently have APIs for driving the compiler (driver), just interrogating the AST.

 - Daniel

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> - Brian Gesiak
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> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Drew Crawford <drew at sealedabstract.com <mailto:drew at sealedabstract.com>> wrote:
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>> On May 6, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dunbar at apple.com <mailto:daniel_dunbar at apple.com>> wrote:
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>> The conclusion was that after weighing all of the tradeoffs, it made the most
>> sense to encourage porting of SourceKit to Linux and then using it to build out
>> the Linux test discovery feature. This was most in line with a desirable
>> long-term direction without being blocked on language design.
> 
> For whatever it's worth, this direction is a win on my side as well.
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> In addition to the problem of test discovery (for which I'm using an out-of-tree parser), I have a lot of other problems entirely outside of testing that rely on source-level queries similar to the XCTest problem.  This is things like parsing comments for documentation, implementing dispatch-by-string, etc.  I currently rely on SK in many cases, but lack of support on Linux is a major issue.  Lack of features exposed in the SK APIs is another issue.
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> IMO it is a clear win to invest in resolving these problems inside SK.  Right now it is basically a glorified Xcode daemon, but I think it can have a bright future as a multi-client tool if we're willing to invest in making that happen.
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