topic Re: Repository unit tests hang when run against latest git, due to messaging subsystem in Alfresco Forum

Repository unit tests hang when run against latest git, due to messaging subsystem

gagravarr — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:27:51 GMT

This is mostly a heads-up for anyone trying to run Repository unit tests on the latest version of the alfresco-repository from Github. TL;DR the defaults now assume you have the message bus stuff running and available, the readme doesn't, and you need to set messaging.subsystem.autoStart=false to ge

Re: Repository unit tests hang when run against latest git, due to messaging subsystem

afaust — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:48:44 GMT

Yeah - that Messaging subsystem is a huge pain in the ***. It does not have any sort of a connection timeout to deal with unavailability of ActiveMQ, and should be completely optional (Alfresco works perfectly fine without it, and most people likely won't need / use the out-of-process event handling stuff anytime soon).

But I am quite surprised that the unit tests run at all after you disabled that subsystem's auto-start. When I worked on an enhancement for the ReST API around the turn of the year, nothing I did was able to make it run locally and had to rely on their Travis CI build for Pull Requests to run the unit tests. Basically I had to develop my test additions in the blind, push, test, repeat - even going so far as adding temporary logging / debugging code I could then see the output of in the Travis CI log. In the end, I reverted those temporary commits and re-applied the changes in a clean way for the PR.

Re: Repository unit tests hang when run against latest git, due to messaging subsystem

afaust — Wed, 15 May 2019 11:06:41 GMT

Since I just found out today, I have to make an addendum to my previous reply, so that people stumbling over it do not get the wrong impression. It turns out that Active MQ is used and required for ONE (1 !) small feature in Alfresco CE 6.1.2 GA: Refreshing / regenerating renditions when the content of a node changes. If the Messaging and Events subsystems are disabled, renditions will no longer be automatically refreshed.

Re: Repository unit tests hang when run against latest git, due to messaging subsystem

douglascrp — Sat, 18 May 2019 11:13:44 GMT

Wow.... so does that mean the thumbnails shown in Share are not going to be refreshed?