Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] oeqa parselogs.py: load ignore files from sys.path

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 02:01:36PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 10 Jan 2024, at 13:03, Mikko Rapeli via lists.openembedded.org <mikko.rapeli=linaro.org@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> > python import.resources open_text() loads files from the module paths
> > but this requires layers to set "addpylib ${LAYERDIR}/lib oeqa"
> > which is not needed to find the plain .py test files to run the tests.
> > Also an empty __init__.py file in a layer will break the resource file
> > loading completely as only that path with __init__.py file will
> > be used to search the resource files. Then open_text() is marked
> > as deprecated from python 3.11 onwards
> > https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.resources.html
> 
> Deprecated but replaceable with files(package).joinpath(resource).open() (which is all open_text does internally).

Yes, but that seems to break if __init__.py file is found from
${LAYERDIR}/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases.

> > So replace open_text() by iterating over sys.path to find the ignore
> > files. This works since paths like ${LAYERDIR}/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases are
> > already in sys.path. Add debug prints for found and not found files
> > while at it.
> 
> I’m confused why lib/oeqa/runtime/cases is on sys.path directly, that sounds… unusual.  Do you have any idea where that comes from?  I’m guessing oeqa is throwing it on the path whilst searching for test cases, but that sounds like bad behaviour that should be removed to me.

No idea where this comes from, but it's there. addpylib is doing similar things,
adding paths to sys.path and for this use case this not really necessary as
${LAYERDIR}/lib should not need to be, it only has oeqa directory. I presume
test case loading via testimage.bbclass or OERuntim are adding it. These are kind
of hard to debug since "bitbake -e" show any of this.

It's a bit odd that layer.conf would need "addpylib ${LAYERDIR}/lib oeqa" for loading
.txt files but that's not needed for finding and using the oeqa .py test files.
With this change addpylib magic is not needed, at least for finding these
.txt files.

Cheers,

-Mikko