[tap-l] TAP producer output after a Bail out!

[Andy Armstrong]

On 13 Mar 2009, at 12:07, Nick Wallis wrote:
> Once a TAP producer has declared a Bail out! what is valid in the TAP
> after the Bail out declaration?
>
> - Test results (ok/not ok)?
> - Skip directives?
> - Todos?
> - More comments/Diagnostics?
> - Plan? Either at the beginning of the test or the end? Does this  
> reset
> the Parser to recognise that it is now in another test?
>
> Can the producer just write everything it is asked and rely on the TAP
> Parser ignoring the output?


Here's what we say in the draft IETF spec[1]:

> A Bail-Out line indicates that something has gone wrong with the  
> test suite such that the results are compromised. The parser should  
> ignore the rest of the stream and if possible kill test. It must not  
> run any more tests in the suite.

Test::Harness prints a message and dies.

So basically all bets are off after Bail out. It's OK to output  
anything or nothing - but it'll be ignored.

Test::Harness doesn't attempt to kill the test that it's running -  
probably because it's better to let the test clean up for itself.

[1] http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_at_IETF:_Draft_Standard

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Andy Armstrong, Hexten