We had some tests for the number type in Alternator and how it can be
stored, retrieved, calculated and sorted, but only had rudementary tests
for the allowed magnitude and precision of numbers.
This patch creates a new test file, test_number.py, with tests aiming to
check exactly the supported magnitudes and precision of numbers.
These tests verify two things:
1. That Alternator's number type supports the full precision and magnitude
that DynamoDB's number type supports. We don't want to see precision
or magnitude lost when storing and retrieving numbers, or when doing
calculations on them.
2. That Alternator's number type does not have *better* precision or
magnitude than DynamoDB does. If it did, users may be tempted to rely
on that implementation detail.
The three tests of the first type pass; But all four tests of the second
type xfail: Alternator currently stores numbers using big_decimal which
has unlimited precision and almost-unlimited magnitude, and is not yet
limited by the precision and magnitude allowed by DynamoDB.
This is a known issue - Refs #6794 - and these four new xfailing tests
will can be used to reproduce that issue.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20200707204824.504877-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
To make the tests in alternator-test runnable by test.py, we need to
move the directory alternator-test/ to test/alternator, because test.py
only looks for tests in subdirectories of test/. Then, we need to create
a test/alternator/suite.yaml saying that this test directory is of type
"Run", i.e., it has a single run script "run" which runs all its tests.
The "run" script had to be slightly modified to be aware of its new
location relative to the source directory.
To run the Alternator tests from test.py, do:
./test.py --mode dev alternator
Note that in this version, the "--mode" has no effect - test/alternator/run
always runs the latest compiled Scylla, regardless of the chosen mode.
The Alternator tests can still be run manually and individually against
a running Scylla or DynamoDB as before - just go to the test/alternator
directory (instead of alternator-test previously) and run "pytest" with
the desired parameters.
Fixes#6046
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
