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tests/standalone/src/io/ProcessRunOutput.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+//
+// Test script for testing that output is handled correctly for
+// non-interactive processes started with Process.run.
+
+#import("dart:io");
+#source("ProcessTestUtil.dart");
+
+checkOutput(encoding, output) {
+  if (encoding == 'ascii') {
+    Expect.equals(output, 'abc');
+  } else if (encoding == 'latin1') {
+    Expect.equals(output, 'æøå');
+  } else if (encoding == 'utf8') {
+    Expect.listEquals(output.charCodes(), [955]);
+  }
+}
+
+test(scriptFile, encoding, stream) {
+  var enc;
+  if (encoding == 'ascii') {
+    enc = Encoding.ASCII;
+  } else if (encoding == 'latin1') {
+    enc = Encoding.ISO_8859_1;
+  } else if (encoding = 'utf8') {
+    enc = Encoding.UTF_8;
+  }
+
+  var options = new ProcessOptions();
+  if (stream == 'stdout') {
+    options.stdoutEncoding = enc;
+    new Process.run(getDartFileName(), [scriptFile, encoding, stream],
+                    options, (exit, out, err) {
+      Expect.equals(exit, 0);
+      Expect.equals(err, '');
+      checkOutput(encoding, out);
+    });
+  } else {
+    options.stderrEncoding = enc;
+    new Process.run(getDartFileName(), [scriptFile, encoding, stream],
+                    options, (exit, out, err) {
+      Expect.equals(exit, 0);
+      Expect.equals(out, '');
+      checkOutput(encoding, err);
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+main() {
+  var scriptFile = new File("tests/standalone/src/io/ProcessStdIOScript2.dart");
+  if (!scriptFile.existsSync()) {
+    scriptFile =
+        new File("../tests/standalone/src/io/ProcessStdIOScript2.dart");
+  }
+  Expect.isTrue(scriptFile.existsSync());
+  test(scriptFile.name, 'ascii', 'stdout');
+  test(scriptFile.name, 'ascii', 'stderr');
+  test(scriptFile.name, 'latin1', 'stdout');
+  test(scriptFile.name, 'latin1', 'stderr');
+  test(scriptFile.name, 'utf8', 'stdout');
+  test(scriptFile.name, 'utf8', 'stderr');
+
+}