Re: Adding facility for injection points (or probe points?) for more advanced tests

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 04:37:58PM +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> Interesting idea. For that the callback needs to know the injection
> point name. At least we should pass that to the callback. It's trivial
> thing to do.

This is what's done from the beginning, as well as of 0001 in the v5
series:
+INJECTION_POINT(name);
[...]
+   injection_callback(name);

> That might work, but in order to run tests in that directory one has
> to also install the extension. Do we have precedence for such kind of
> dependency?

Yes, please see EXTRA_INSTALL in some of the Makefiles.  This can
install stuff from paths different than the location where the tests
are run.

>> and that there are no string objections, so feel free
>> to comment.
> 
> Let's get some more opinions on the design. I will review the detailed
> code then.

Sure.  Thanks.

>> I don't want to propose 0003 in the tree, just an improved version of
>> 0004 for the test coverage (still need to improve that).
> 
> Are you working on v6 already?

No, what would be the point at this stage?  I dont have much more to
add to 0001 and 0002 at the moment, which focus on the core of the
problem.
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Michael