[PATCH] test samba-tool --help

Douglas Bagnall douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz
Mon Dec 18 04:37:52 UTC 2017


Running `samba-tool --help` lists a number of subcommands, and if you
recurse into the help tree with a subcommand like so

$ bin/samba-tool spn --help

you are given a list of sub-subcommands.

This patch climbs the samba-tool --help tree and checks that each call
succeeds. Incidentally, there are 109 nodes on the tree.

Why bother, you are probably asking, given this test is doing very
little and exercising the same bit of code 109 times. Well, there are
two reasons:

1) I want to change some things in the help code.

2) as far as I can tell, some branches (like "spn") are not tested in
any way. This test will at least catch syntax errors.

cheers,
Douglas
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