[Avocado-devel] Passing test parameters on the command-line?

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:26:55AM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:08:54AM +0200, Amador Pahim wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 5:44 AM Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am reading the docs about test parameters[1][2][3], and I
> > > learned how to access them inside the test code.  But I couldn't
> > > find one piece of information: what's the simplest way to _pass_
> > > parameters to tests?
> > 
> > avocado run --mux-inject 'foo:bar' -- test.py
> > 
> > ("--mux-inject   Inject [path:]key:node values into the final multiplex tree.")
> 
> Thanks!  This looks like what I'm looking for.

This doesn't seem to work at all:

[qemu/work/virtio-transport-cleanup>]$ avocado run --mux-inject qemu_bin:s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x -- tests/acceptance/vnc.py
JOB ID     : 7a0be3dfef1e56d5d26b7950263080409ddaefea
JOB LOG    : /home/ehabkost/avocado/job-results/job-2018-11-14T19.55-7a0be3d/job.log
 (1/4) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc;-3b6e: PASS (0.11 s)
 (2/4) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc_change_password;-3b6e: PASS (0.10 s)
 (3/4) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password_requires_a_password;-3b6e: PASS (0.10 s)
 (4/4) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password;-3b6e: PASS (0.11 s)
RESULTS    : PASS 4 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0
JOB TIME   : 0.79 s
[qemu/work/virtio-transport-cleanup>]$ grep qemu_bin ~/avocado/job-results/latest/job.log
2018-11-14 19:55:27,591 job              L0351 INFO | Command line: /home/ehabkost/rh/proj/virt/qemu/tests/venv/bin/avocado run --mux-inject qemu_bin:s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x -- tests/acceptance/vnc.py
2018-11-14 19:55:27,700 parameters       L0146 DEBUG| PARAMS (key=qemu_bin, path=*, default=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64) => 'x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64'
2018-11-14 19:55:27,863 parameters       L0146 DEBUG| PARAMS (key=qemu_bin, path=*, default=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64) => 'x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64'
2018-11-14 19:55:28,036 parameters       L0146 DEBUG| PARAMS (key=qemu_bin, path=*, default=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64) => 'x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64'
2018-11-14 19:55:28,222 parameters       L0146 DEBUG| PARAMS (key=qemu_bin, path=*, default=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64) => 'x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64'
[qemu/work/virtio-transport-cleanup>]$ avocado --version
Avocado 65.0
[qemu/work/virtio-transport-cleanup>]$

Does anybody know why?

-- 
Eduardo