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Suite of tools and fixtures to manage daemons for testing

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Pifpaf is a suite of fixtures and a command-line tool that allows to start and stop daemons for a quick throw-away usage. This is typically useful when needing these daemons to run integration testing. It originaly evolved from its precussor overtest.

Supported daemons

Pifpaf currently supports:

Usage

To use Pifpaf, simply call the pifpaf run $daemon <command> program that you need. It will setup the temporary environment and export a few environment variable for you to accesss it:

$ pifpaf run postgresql psql template1
Expanded display is used automatically.
Line style is unicode.
SET
psql (9.4.5)
Type "help" for help.

template1=# \l
                              List of databases
   Name    │ Owner │ Encoding │   Collate   │    Ctype    │ Access privileges
───────────┼───────┼──────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────
 postgres  │ jd    │ UTF8     │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │
 template0 │ jd    │ UTF8     │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ =c/jd            ↵
           │       │          │             │             │ jd=CTc/jd
 template1 │ jd    │ UTF8     │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ =c/jd            ↵
           │       │          │             │             │ jd=CTc/jd
(3 rows)

template1=# \q
$

You can also run it with no command line provided:

$ eval `pifpaf run memcached`
$ env | grep PIFPAF
PIFPAF_PID=13387
PIFPAF_DAEMON=memcached
PIFPAF_URL=memcached://localhost:11212
PIFPAF_MEMCACHED_URL=memcached://localhost:11212
$ kill $PIFPAF_PID

Killing the daemon whose PID is contained in $PIFPAF_PID will stop the launched daemon and clean the test environment.

Environment variables

Pifpaf exports a few environment variable:

  • PIFPAF_DAEMON which contains the name of the daemon launched

  • PIFPAF_URL which contains the URL to the daemon

  • PIFPAF_PID the PID of the pifpaf daemon

  • PIFPAF_$daemon_* variables, which contains daemon specific variables, such as port, database name, URL, etc.

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