[erlang-questions] How to get at data_dir from all/0 and groups/0 callbacks in common_test

[Lukas Larsson]

Hello,

Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to do this. We've been talking
for a long time about adding someway to generate and parameterize testcases
for common_test, but so far there has not been enough time available to
come up with a good solution. I would not consider it bad form at all to
want to do this, but it is quite awkward with the currently available
functionality.

You could (not saying it is a good or future compatible approach) use the
location of the current ?MODULE to calculate the location of the _data dir.

Lukas


On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Peer Stritzinger <peerst@REDACTED> wrote:

> I'd like to auto-generate my testcases from the files found in the
> data_dir.
>
> Unfortunately I don't get passed a Config in my all/0 and groups/0
> testsuite callbacks.
>
> Is there another way of obtaining the path to data_dir in these callbacks?
>
> Or is it considered bad form to generate testcases from the files in
> data_dir (I could still iterate over the files in data_dir in single
> testcases whicht would do the same but have much worse reporting)
>
> Cheers,
> -- Peer
>
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