The recent change to support importing ktesting into an E2E suite
without progress reporting was flawed:
- If a Go unit test had a deadline (the default when invoked
by `go test`!), the early return skipped initializing progress
reporting.
- When it didn't, for example when invoking a test binary directly
under stress, a test created goroutines which were kept running,
which broke leak checking in e.g. an integration tests TestMain.
The revised approach uses reference counting: as long as some unit test is
running, the progress reporting with the required goroutines are active.
When the last one ends, they get cleaned up, which keeps the goleak
checker happy.
The original implementation was inspired by how context.Context is handled via
wrapping a parent context. That approach had several issues:
- It is useful to let users call methods (e.g. tCtx.ExpectNoError)
instead of ktesting functions with a tCtx parameters, but that only
worked if all implementations of the interface implemented that
set of methods. This made extending those methods cumbersome (see
the commit which added Require+Assert) and could potentially break
implementations of the interface elsewhere, defeating part of the
motivation for having the interface in the first place.
- It was hard to see how the different TContext wrappers cooperated
with each other.
- Layering injection of "ERROR" and "FATAL ERROR" on top of prefixing
with the klog header caused post-processing of a failed unit test to
remove that line because it looked like log output. Other log output
lines where kept because they were not indented.
- In Go <=1.25, the `go vet sprintf` check only works for functions and
methods if they get called directly and themselves directly pass their
parameters on to fmt.Sprint. The check does not work when calling
methods through an interface. Support for that is coming in Go 1.26,
but will depend on bumping the Go version also in go.mod and thus
may not be immediately possible in Kubernetes.
- Interface documentation in
https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/kubernetes@v1.34.2/test/utils/ktesting#TContext
is a monolithic text block. Documentation for methods is more readable and allows
referencing those methods with [] (e.g. [TC.Errorf] works, [TContext.Errorf]
didn't).
The revised implementation is a single struct with (almost) no exported
fields. The two exceptions (embedded context.Context and TB) are useful because
it avoids having to write wrappers for several functions resp. necessary
because Helper cannot be wrapped. Like a logr.LogSink, With* methods can make a
shallow copy and then change some fields in the cloned instance.
The former `ktesting.TContext` interface is now a type alias for
`*ktesting.TC`. This ensures that existing code using ktesting doesn't need to
be updated and because that code is a bit more compact (`tCtx
ktesting.TContext` instead of `tCtx *ktesting.TContext` when not using such an
alias). Hiding that it is a pointer might discourage accessing the exported
fields because it looks like an interface.
Output gets fixed and improved such that:
- "FATAL ERROR" and "ERROR" are at the start of the line, followed by the klog header.
- The failure message follows in the next line.
- Continuation lines are always indented.
The set of methods exposed via TB is now a bit more complete (Attr, Chdir).
All former stand-alone With* functions are now also available as methods and
should be used instead of the functions. Those will be removed.
Linting of log calls now works and found some issues.
We need to see the actual effect that ktesting will have when used as wrapper
around testing.T. Producing an error hid that adding the klog header makes some
output sub-optimal:
<klog header>: FATAL ERROR: ...
The problem with having the klog header at the beginning of the line is that
the Kubernetes `make test` post-processing treats this as log output instead
of the failure message of the test. Will be fixed separately.
