[LDTP-Dev] The issue of CWD of scripts loaded by ldtprunner

[Nagappan Alagappan]

Hi Scott,

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Wang Qi, Scott <wangqi.s at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Nagappan,
>
> I followed the ldtp-tutorial and created a ldtprunner XML file named
> 'run.xml'. The XML file loaded a script named 'test.py' successfully.
>
> In 'test.py', I loaded a ldtp Data XML file as follows. But I found that
> the 'data.xml' must reside in the same directory as 'run.xml'.
>
> dataXml = ldtputils.LdtpDataFileParser ('data.xml')
>
> It causes some difficulites in arranging the ldtprunner xml files. We may
> have mutilple runner xml files comming from different directories to load
> the same 'test.py'.  It forbid we write a hardcoded path for 'data.xml'.
> 1) One solution is to use a flat directory structure. But it is too
> unnatural.
>

Sorry, when I designed, just thought the files will be on current working
directory :)



> 2) The other is to use os.getcwd() and os.chcwd() to change the working
> directory. But it seems I can't use '__file__' macro to get the current
> executing file's path information resolved.
>
> Is there a better solution or hack available?
>

The GNOME Desktop Testing team uses the LDTP API for automation and they
have written their own version something similar or better than ldtprunner
:) In the mean time, let me try to fix this as well.

Thanks
Nagappan

>
> (It seems ldtp 1.7.1's ldtprunner implementation use 'execfile' to run the
> loaded script. I am not sure if there is another other standard method to
> solve the above issue)
>
> Thanks
> Scott Wang
>
>
>
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