[libvirt] [PATCH 0/7] Test parsing of iscsiadm output

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:08:10PM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> Introduce virCommandSetMockOutputFile for faking output of
> asynchronous commands and use it to test parsing of iscsiadm
> output in virStorageBackendISCSISession and
> virStorageBackendISCSIScanTargets
> 
> Ján Tomko (7):
>   Change virStorageBackendISCSISession 'probe' arg to bool
>   Introduce virStoragePoolSourceDeviceClear
>   Use size_t for ndevice in pool source definition
>   Introduce vircommandpriv.h for functions used by tests
>   Add virCommandSetMockOutputFile
>   Add test for virStorageBackendISCSISession
>   Add a test for virStorageBackendISCSIScanTargets

Strangely I've still not received patch 2, but ACK to that patch
based on what's in the mailing list archives.


If you want to do any more work in this area, I think one other good
idea would be to introduce a src/util/viriscsi.{c,h} helper API which
exposes a set of APIs for core iSCSI operations we need. This would
isolate all the iscsiadm command code in one place, separated from the
storage backend implementation, so both sides of the code would be
easier to follow.

I think I'd extend this API to other stuff the storage backends do
too. eg a virlvm.{c,h} and a virscsi.{c,h} etc, to again isolate code
that is invoking commands + parsing their output, from the code that
actually uses this functionality.

Regards,
Daniel
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