blogcli tool tests

This is a set of tests executing shell scripts and ensuring the output is as expected. Tests expect blogcli binary to be present in one of the $PATH directories.

Examples

This directory largely serves as self-documenting examples of how to create transactions. These can be seen below:

• Create Multisig
• Create batch of send tx

Submitting the transaction

After creating a transaction with any of the previous manners, you need to prepare it for submission. All of the following commands take a -tm=https://blog.NETWORK.iov.one:443 like argument to point to the proper network, where we want to query fee info, nonce, or submit it. It is usually easier to just export BLOGCLI_TM_URL=https://blog.NETWORK.iov.one:443 and then ignore repeating the flag on all these commands.

cat unsigned_tx.bin \
    | blogcli with-fee [-amount="0.1 BLOG"] \
    | blogcli sign [-key $keyfile] \
    | blogcli submit

with-fee will query the proper fee for the given transaction (anti-spam fee plus product fee), unless you specify a manual amount as override.

sign will sign with a private key located in $HOME/.blog.priv.key unless you specify a different location. It will calculate the address of that key and query the given chain for the proper nonce before signing.

submit will post the signed transaction to the given chain and wait until it is in a block. This may take a second or two, but remember, the chain is not blocked at this time, you are just waiting for the next block to be processes. You can run this in parallel, but not with the same account, or else you will have issues with out-of-order nonces.

Running tests

To run the tests you need Go. We are using Go's testing package as the test runner. Enter clitest directory and run:

go test .

Adding new test

To add a new test, create a file <test_name>.test in this directory. It should be a Bourne shell (not bash) script. Its stdout will be captured by the test runner and compared with <test_name>.test.gold file content.

Best is to start your test file with the following lines:

    set -e

Creating a golden file

Do not create xxx.test.gold files by hand. Instead, run the test runner with the -gold flag to regenerate all of them.

go test -gold .

This will overwrite all golden files with new results. Check the changes using git diff command to make sure the output change is expected.