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d27e2d87b95b7982c05b4c88e463cc9626ab9f0a test: test_bitcoin: allow -testdatadir=<datadir> (Larry Ruane)
Pull request description:
This backward-compatible change would help with code review, testing, and debugging. When `test_bitcoin` runs, it creates a working or data directory within `/tmp/test_common_Bitcoin\ Core/`, named as a long random (hex) string.
This small patch does three things:
- If the (new) argument `-testdatadir=<datadir>` is given, use `<datadir>/test_temp/<test-name>/datadir` as the working directory
- When the test starts, remove `<datadir>/test_temp/<test-name>/datadir` if it exists from an earlier run (currently, it's presumed not to exist due to the long random string)
- Don't delete the working directory at the end of the test if a custom data directory is being used
Example usage, which will remove, create, use `/somewhere/test_temp/getarg_tests/boolarg`, and leave it afterward:
```
$ test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/boolarg -- -testdatadir=/somewhere
Running 1 test case...
Test directory (will not be deleted): "/somewhere/test_temp/getarg_tests/boolarg/datadir"
*** No errors detected
$ ls -l /somewhere/test_temp/getarg_tests/boolarg/datadir
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 larry larry 4096 Feb 22 10:28 blocks
-rw-rw-r-- 1 larry larry 1273 Feb 22 10:28 debug.log
```
(A relative pathname also works.)
This change affects only `test_bitcoin`; it could also be applied to `test_bitcoin-qt` but that's slightly more involved so I'm skipping that for now.
The rationale for this change is that, when running the test using the debugger, it's often useful to watch `debug.log` as the test runs and inspect some of the other files (I've looked at the generated `blknnnn.dat` files for example). Currently, that requires figuring out where the test's working directory is since it changes on every test run. Tests can be run with `-printtoconsole=1` to show debug logging to the terminal, but it's nice to keep `debug.log` continuously open in an editor, for example.
Even if not using a debugger, it's sometimes helpful to see `debug.log` and other artifacts after the test completes.
Similar functionality is already possible with the functional tests using the `--tmpdir=` and `--nocleanup` arguments.
ACKs for top commit:
davidgumberg:
ACK d27e2d87b9
tdb3:
re-ACK for d27e2d87b95b7982c05b4c88e463cc9626ab9f0a
achow101:
ACK d27e2d87b95b7982c05b4c88e463cc9626ab9f0a
cbergqvist:
ACK d27e2d87b95b7982c05b4c88e463cc9626ab9f0a! (Already did some testing with `fs::remove()` to make sure it was compatible with the `util::Lock/UnlockDirectory` implementation).
marcofleon:
ACK d27e2d87b95b7982c05b4c88e463cc9626ab9f0a. I ran all the tests with my previous open file limit and no errors were detected. Also ran some individual tests with no, relative, and absolute paths and everything looks good.
furszy:
ACK d27e2d8
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