From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-14T07:04:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit testing servers

Luke Kanies wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got an xmlrpc server and client that I can't figure out how to test.
> 
> The methods I've tried so far, with their results are:
> 
> 1) Server and client in separate threads.  I get a deadlock, no matter what I
> try to do.

What about trying a simple TCP client/server in this configuration,
maybe starting with the sample/{tsvr,clnt}.rb in the ruby distribution
modified to run in two threads. I'm using single-process multithreaded
tests for TCP client/server code and it works well. It's easier to work
in one process with the state of the whole system before, during, and
after tests. But I don't know what else might be going on with xmlrpc.

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