ArangoDB Maintainers manual

This file contains documentation about the build process, documentation generation means, unittests - put short - if you want to hack parts of arangod this could be interesting for you.

Configure

--enable-relative --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-all-in-one-icu --with-backtrace

CFLAGS

-DDEBUG_CLUSTER_COMM - Add backtraces to cluster requests so you can easily track their origin

V8 Special flags: -DENABLE_GDB_JIT_INTERFACE (enable (broken) GDB intergation of JIT) At runtime arangod needs to be started with these options: --javascript.v8-options="--gdbjit_dump" --javascript.v8-options="--gdbjit_full"

Runtime

start arangod with --console to get a debug console
Cheapen startup for valgrind: --no-server --javascript.gc-frequency 1000000 --javascript.gc-interval 65536 --scheduler.threads=1 --javascript.v8-contexts=1
to have backtraces output set this on the prompt: ENABLE_NATIVE_BACKTRACES(true)

Documentation

Dependencies:

swagger
gitbook (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook)
markdown-pp (https://github.com/triAGENS/markdown-pp)
cURL if you want to cut'n'paste execute the examples

Where...

js/action/api/* - markdown comments in source with execution section
Documentation/Books/Users/SUMMARY.md - index of all sub documentations
Documentation/Scripts/generateSwaggerApi.py - list of all sections to be adjusted if

generate

make swagger - on toplevel to generate the documentation interactively with the server
cd Documentation/Books; make - to generate the HTML documentation

read / use the documentation

file:///Documentation/Books/books/Users/index.html contains the generated documentation
JS-Console - Tools/API - Interactive documentation which you can play with.

JSLint

(we switched to jshint a while back - this is still named jslint for historical reasons)

Make target

use make jslint to find out whether all of your files comply to jslint. This is required to make contineous integration work smoothly.

if you want to add new files / patterns to this make target, edit js/Makefile.files

Use standalone for your js file

If you want to search errors in your js file, jslint is very handy - like a compiler is for C/C++. You can invoke it like this:

bin/arangosh --jslint js/server/modules/org/arangodb/testing.js

ArangoDB Unittesting Framework

Dependencies

Ruby, rspec

Filename conventions

Special patterns in filenames are used to select tests to be executed or skipped depending on parameters:

-cluster

These tests will only run if clustering is tested. (option 'cluster' needs to be true).

-noncluster

These tests will only run if no cluster is used. (option 'cluster' needs to be false)

-timecritical

These tests are critical to execution time - and thus may fail if arangod is to slow. This may happen i.e. if you run the tests in valgrind, so you want to avoid them. To skip them, set the option 'skipTimeCritical' to true.

-disabled

These tests are disabled. You may however want to run them by hand.

replication

(only applies to ruby tests) These tests aren't run automaticaly since they require a manual set up environment.

-spec

These tests are ran using the jasmine framework instead of jsunity.

Test frameworks used

There are several major places where unittests live:

UnitTests/HttpInterface
UnitTests/Basics
UnitTests/Geo
js/server/tests (runneable on the server)
js/common/tests (runneable on the server & via arangosh)
js/common/test-data
js/client/tests (runneable via arangosh)
/js/apps/system/aardvark/test

HttpInterface - RSpec Client Tests

TODO: which tests are these?

jsUnity on arangod

you can engage single tests when running arangod with console like this: require("jsunity").runTest("js/server/tests/aql-queries-simple.js");

jsUnity via arangosh

arangosh is similar, however, you can only run tests which are intended to be ran via arangosh: require("jsunity").runTest("js/client/tests/shell-client.js");

jasmine tests

Jasmine tests cover two important usecase:

testing the UI components of aardvark -spec

aardvark

UnitTests/Makefile.unittests

Invocation methods

Make-targets

(used in travis CI integration) Most of the tests can be invoked via the main Makefile:

unittests
unittests-brief
unittests-verbose
unittests-recovery
unittests-config
unittests-boost
unittests-single
unittests-shell-server
unittests-shell-server-only
unittests-shell-server-aql
unittests-shell-client-readonly
unittests-shell-client
unittests-http-server
unittests-ssl-server
unittests-import
unittests-replication
unittests-replication-server
unittests-replication-http
unittests-replication-data
unittests-upgrade
unittests-dfdb
unittests-foxx-manager
unittests-dump
unittests-arangob
unittests-authentication
unittests-authentication-parameters

Javascript framework

(used in Jenkins integration) Invoked like that: scripts/run scripts/unittest.js all

calling it without parameters like this: scripts/run scripts/unittest.js will give you a extensive usage help which we won't duplicate here.

Choosing facility

The first parameter chooses the facility to execute. Available choices include:

all: (calls multiple) This target is utilized by most of the jenkins builds invoking unit tests.
single_client: (see Running a single unittestsuite)
single_server: (see Running a single unittestsuite)
many more - call without arguments for more details.

Passing Options

Options are passed in as one json; Please note that formating blanks may cause problems. Different facilities may take different options. The above mentioned usage output contains the full detail.

A commandline for running a single test (-> with the facility 'single_server') using valgrind could look like this:

scripts/run scripts/unittest.js single_server
'{"test":"js/server/tests/aql-escaping.js",'
'"extraargs":["--server.threads=1",'
'"--scheduler.threads=1",'
'"--javascript.gc-frequency","1000000",'
'"--javascript.gc-interval","65536"],'
'"valgrind":"/usr/bin/valgrind",'
'"valgrindargs":["--log-file=/tmp/valgrindlog.%p"]}'

we specify the test to execute
we specify some arangod arguments which increase the server performance
we specify to run using valgrind (this is supported by all facilities
we specify some valgrind commandline arguments

Running a single unittestsuite

Testing a single test with the frame work directly on a server: scripts/run scripts/unittest.js single_server '{"test":"js/server/tests/aql-escaping.js"}'

Testing a single test with the frame work via arangosh: scripts/run scripts/unittest.js single_client '{"test":"js/server/tests/aql-escaping.js"}'

unittest.js is mostly only a wrapper; The backend functionality lives in: js/server/modules/org/arangodb/testing.js

arangod Emergency console

require("jsunity").runTest("js/server/tests/aql-escaping.js");

arangosh client

require("jsunity").runTest("js/server/tests/aql-escaping.js");

arangod commandline arguments

bin/arangod /tmp/dataUT --javascript.unit-tests="js/server/tests/aql-escaping.js" --no-server

make unittest

js/common/modules/loadtestrunner.js

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