[RFR] (XS) 8144677: jprt.properties should allow creating a user specified testset with custom build flavors and build targets

[David Holmes]

On 7/12/2015 6:33 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
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> On 2015-12-04 22:00, Chris Plummer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review the following:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144677
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~cjplummer/8144677/webrev.01/webrev/
>>
>> Tested with JPRT with:
>>   • "-testset hotspot"
>>   • "-testset svc"
>>   • "-testset chris" from the example custom testset provided in the CR.
>>   • no testset specified
>>
>> BTW, if anyone knows of an "include" mechanism for jprt.properties,
>> please let me know. Although that won't change the need for the above
>> changes, it would make it possible to put custom testsets in a file
>> rather than having to paste them in your ~/.jprt.properties file.
>>
> JPRT properties files are pretty special, but to my knowledge, there is
> no include mechanism. I don't think it would be hard to implement though.

They aren't really special they just use Properties.loadFromStream (or 
something like that). To do an include mechanism you'd have to implement 
all the reading and parsing logic yourself.

David


> /Erik
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