Is there a test suite for the Noark 5 REST interface??

[Thomas Sødring]

On 11/09/2016 08:18 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Thomas Sødring]
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think you are asking about the official interface that is in Beta
>> [1].
> Yes.
>
>> No, there is no test framework for this yet. The National Archive
>> wishes that one should be developed, but it hasn't been developed
>> yet. I am hoping that the test suite that is included in the code can
>> result in a framework that can be used to test any Noark system. But I
>> don't have the time to think about that. I'm also hoping that the core
>> will include software to test Noark 5 extractions, but that will come
>> after version 1.0.
> Right.  I was wondering if I should make some trivial scripts in python
> to talk to the API and see what kind of response it got.  Perhaps it can
> be the start of a test suite?  I suspect it make sense to put it in a
> separate git repository, to make it easier to reuse for other
> implementations, if that is interesting to them.
>
> Or is it better to write some JUnit tests in Java to include in the
> nikita code?  I suspect python code will be quicker to prototype.
>
 I think starting something in python, might allow for a independent
test framework. So I think you should try that.

 - Tom