[ipv6] Regarding 8220673: Add test library support for determining platform IP support

[Daniel Fuchs]

On 11/04/2019 17:01, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> Yes, this is a good point. What’s nice about this is that there is just
> one body of code that provides the functionality ( and it is all in
> Java, not native). I'm interested to see how this performs in Arthur's
> experiments, and I need to do a little more testing myself. It is
> important that a test leaves enough breadcrumbs behind if it decides
> that it will not run.
> 

Ah - so possibly we could have a higher level method in IPSupport:
that would do something like:

public static void ensureConfigurationIsValid()
            throws jtreg.SkippedException {

   if (!IPSupport.currentConfigurationIsValid()) {
       // log the configuration, provides diagnostic
       // as to why it is invalid
       ...
       String message = "invalid configuration for this test: " + ...;
       throws new SkippedException(message);
   }

}

Is that what you have in mind Chris?

best regards,

-- daniel