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instead of evaluating the constants in-class, accessing them via
a cached class property.
it would be handy if we could source `scylla-gdb.py` in `.gdbinit`,
but this script accesses some symbols which are not available without
a file being debugged. what's why gdb fails to load the init script:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kefu/dev/scylladb/scylla-gdb.py", line 167, in <module>
class intrusive_slist:
File "/home/kefu/dev/scylladb/scylla-gdb.py", line 168, in intrusive_slist
size_t = gdb.lookup_type('size_t')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gdb.error: No type named size_t.
```
so we have to `file path/to/scylla` and *then*
`source scylla-gdb.py` every time when we debug scylla or a seastar
application, instead of loading `scylla-gdb.py` in `.gdbinit`.
the reason is that the script accesses the debug symbols like
`gdb.lookup_type('size_t')` in-class. so when the python interpreter
reads the script, it evaluates this statement, but at that moment,
the debug symbols are not loaded, so `source scylla-gdb.py` fails
in `.gdbinit`.
in this change, we transform all these class variables to cached
properties, so that they
* are evaluated on-demand
* are evaluated only once at most
this addresses the pain at the expense of verbosity.
---
this change intends to improve the developer's user experience, and has no impacts on product, so no need to backport.
Closes scylladb/scylladb#20334
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/scylla_gdb: test the .gdb init use case
scylla-gdb.py: lazy-evaluate the constants
Scylla in-source tests.
For details on how to run the tests, see docs/dev/testing.md
Shared C++ utils, libraries are in lib/, for Python - pylib/
alternator - Python tests which connect to a single server and use the DynamoDB API unit, boost, raft - unit tests in C++ cql-pytest - Python tests which connect to a single server and use CQL topology* - tests that set up clusters and add/remove nodes cql - approval tests that use CQL and pre-recorded output rest_api - tests for Scylla REST API Port 9000 scylla-gdb - tests for scylla-gdb.py helper script nodetool - tests for C++ implementation of nodetool
If you can use an existing folder, consider adding your test to it. New folders should be used for new large categories/subsystems, or when the test environment is significantly different from some existing suite, e.g. you plan to start scylladb with different configuration, and you intend to add many tests and would like them to reuse an existing Scylla cluster (clusters can be reused for tests within the same folder).
To add a new folder, create a new directory, and then
copy & edit its suite.ini.