Tanzu CLI Test Framework

This is a Go package that provides a test framework for Tanzu CLI plugins. It includes functions and structures for creating a main test and individual subtests. The tests run CLI commands and report on their success or failure.

Usage

To use the framework package in your CLI plugin tests, import it as follows:

import "github.com/vmware-tanzu/tanzu-plugin-runtime/test/framework"

Create a new main test using the NewMain function, providing the main test name and a CleanupFunc function to be executed at the end of the test (if necessary).

  m := framework.NewMain("my-command", myCommand, myCleanupFunc)

my-command is the name of your test suite.
myCommand is a cobra.Command object that represents the CLI command you want to test.
myCleanupFunc is a cleanup function that is executed at the end of the test (if specified).

The NewMain function takes a pointer to a cobra.Command as a parameter, so you need to have created this command before calling NewMain.

You can also pass in two optional bool parameters, printReport and deferDelete, which control whether a report should be printed and whether resource deletion should be deferred, respectively.

Create tests using the NewTest function, providing the test name, a slice of arguments to pass to the CLI command, and a boolean indicating whether the command should succeed or fail.

Add the tests to the main test using the AddTest function.

Run the tests using the Run method of the main test.

Here is an example usage of how to use the framework:

This code is a simple CLI (Command Line Interface) written in Go, using the Cobra library. The CLI provides a single command, builder, which has a sub-command called init.
When builder init is executed with the argument myrepo --dry-run, the CLI is expected to create a new repository named myrepo. However, since the --dry-run flag is specified, no actual action will be taken, and the CLI will simply print out what it would have done.
To test this functionality, the test function is defined, which creates a new instance of clitest.Main, sets up the test, and executes it. The test verifies that the myrepo string is contained in the output of the builder init command by calling t.ExecContainsString("myrepo").
The Cleanup function is defined to clean up any resources that may have been created during the test, although in this case it is not used.
The main function sets up a new plugin using the plugin.NewPlugin function, passing in the clitest.NewTestFor("builder") object as a descriptor. The p.Cmd.RunE field is set to the test function, and the plugin is executed using p.Execute().

package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"

    "github.com/spf13/cobra"

    "github.com/vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework/cli/runtime/plugin"
    clitest "github.com/vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework/cli/runtime/test"
)

var descriptor = clitest.NewTestFor("builder")

func main() {
    p, err := plugin.NewPlugin(descriptor)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    p.Cmd.RunE = test
    if err := p.Execute(); err != nil {
        os.Exit(1)
    }
}

func test(c *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
    m := clitest.NewMain("cluster", c, Cleanup)
    defer m.Finish()

    err := m.RunTest(
        "create a repo",
        "builder init myrepo --dry-run",
        func(t *clitest.Test) error {
            err := t.ExecContainsString("myrepo")
            if err != nil {
                return err
            }
            return nil
        },
    )
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    return nil
}

// Cleanup the test.
func Cleanup() error {
    return nil
}

# README

Tanzu CLI Test Framework

Usage