[tor-dev] Stem Proc Integration Tests

[Norman Danner]

(Sorry, wasn't subscribed to tor-dev@, so these last couple of messages 
didn't go there...)

On 6/29/12 4:09 PM, Damian Johnson wrote:
>> I think the question here is that it seems like one should be able to get
>> all the descriptors from the running Tor process via
>>
>>         GETINFO desc/all-recent
>>
>> But there isn't any obvious stem API for this.  One could work around it
>> (e.g., do a get_info(), process a little, turn into a StringIO, and feed
>> that into the functions that want a file), but the real question is whether
>> stem expects clients to do that, or whether you think that should be part of
>> stem.  This is sort of a "how fat should stem be" kind of question.
>
> Ahhh, gotcha. The controller is still in its infancy and maturing it
> is Ravi's GSoC project. Yes, there *should* be methods for 'give me a
> descriptor for fingerprint X' or 'give me a list of all the
> descriptors' but they have not been implemented yet (that said, they'd
> be very, very easy to write).

Should we wait for Ravi to implement this, or can we go ahead and do it 
ourselves as needed?

	- Norman

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University