Robert, I am not sure what you are getting at with reference to black box and 
white box testing. I am simply trying to figure out how to get a buildable 
project.

Ralph

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 1:40 AM, Robert Scholte <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think you need to talk with Christian Stein about blackbox and whitebox 
> testing.
> 
> Robert
> On 25-4-2021 08:47:20, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to convert Log4j 2 to be fully modularized and am running into 
> problems with Log4j-core. First, I have hit a couple of nasty bugs when 
> compiling
> on MacOS that are reflected in 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-461 and 
> https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8265826 .
> Basically the compiler seems to be converting directory names that have a 
> class with the same name in the same package to upper case.
> 
> To combat this I am forced to compile without a module-info.java during 
> annotation processing and again with the module-info.java.
> 
> To make matters worse, the log4j-api, log4j-plugins, and log4j-core modules 
> all have test classes that need to be made available to downstream modules for
> testing. Prior to JPMS we just passed the test jars on, but since many of the 
> unit tests need to use the same packages as the main source the test modules 
> to be
> passed on had to be placed into their own “test” package and so had to be 
> moved out from the rest of the unit test classes so they could be package in 
> a valid
> module.
> 
> As a result of this I had to convert my directory structure into
> src/main/java/ main classes
> src/main/java9/module-info.java
> src/test/java/ unit test classes & module-info.java
> src/test/java-test. Shared test classes
> src/test/java-test9/module-info.java
> 
> and my build consists of:
> 1. Running Log4j’s annotation processor against the main classes without 
> module-info.java.
> 2. Compiling Log4j’s main classes with module-info.java.
> 3. Compiling the separate test classes with its module-info.java.
> 4. Packaging these test classes into the tests jar.
> 5. Running Log4j’s annotation processor against the unit test classes.
> 6. Compiling the unit tests.
> 
> But the build fails at step 5. If I do not include a module-info.java in the 
> unit tests I get failures due to milling modules because maven is setting the 
> module
> path (presumably because the main classes have one). If I do include the 
> module-info.java then I run into the reported bugs and the compile fails with
> duplicate class errors. I’ve thought of trying to compile without 
> module-info.java but I have to create a valid JPMS module for the separate 
> test classes so that
> has to be done before starting on the unit tests.
> 
> The only way I can see to do this is to run the annotation processor without 
> the module path but it seems the compiler plugin provides no option to do 
> that.
> 
> My next thought is to try using 
> https://github.com/bsorrentino/maven-annotation-plugin to perform the 
> annotation processing and see if I have better luck.
> 
> I should also add that these projects look like hell in Intellij as it has no 
> idea how to resolve the second test directory.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on how this could be more easily accomplished? 
> I can’t imagine I am the only person who needs to create a valid test jar.
> 
> Ralph



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