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TestKit: how to set the Clock?
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Description
Use case: I have am writing an implementation of IETF http message signatures. The spec has a lot of examples of signed HTTP messages signed with a validity period. To test the library I would like to set the Clock to a specific valid time and to invalid times, to check that the implementation is correct, i.e. that it fails a correct signature when the date is no longer valid.
I have spent at a few hours looking through the isses that led to the test runtime including the very nice documentation, looked at the source code, issues that led to it. But I could not find out how to do that... I may be missing something obvious...
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the TestKit and Clock APIs and the linked Test Runtime documentation, then trace the existing source to determine whether a configurable clock is exposed. Done means a test can use specified valid and invalid times to verify HTTP message-signature validity behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- testing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100