Introduces testEntryPoint (#1380)

Author: jmgomez

nimble-guide/docs/nimble-reference.md

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
   `js`.
 * ``paths`` - A list of relative paths that will be expanded on `nimble.paths` and the search paths options to the compiler.
 * ``entryPoints`` - A list of relative paths to nim files that will be used by the `nimlangserver` as project entry points. Useful for test files like `tall.nim`
+*``testEntryPoint`` - A relative path to the test file that contains imported tests (i.e. `tall.nim`). 
   **Default**: `c`.
 
 

src/nimble.nim

@@ -1796,6 +1796,13 @@ proc test(options: Options) =
     files = toSeq(walkDir(getCurrentDir() / "tests"))
     tests, failures: int
 
+  if pkgInfo.testEntryPoint != "" :
+    if fileExists(pkgInfo.testEntryPoint):
+      displayInfo("Using test entry point: " & pkgInfo.testEntryPoint, HighPriority)
+      files = @[(kind: pcFile, path: pkgInfo.testEntryPoint)]
+    else:
+      raise nimbleError("Test entry point not found: " & pkgInfo.testEntryPoint)
+
   if files.len < 1:
     display("Warning:", "No tests found!", Warning, HighPriority)
     return

src/nimblepkg/nimscriptapi.nim

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ var
   srcDir*: string      ## The package's source directory.
   binDir*: string      ## The package's binary directory.
   backend*: string     ## The package's backend.
+  testEntryPoint*: string ## The package's test entry point.
 
   skipDirs*, skipFiles*, skipExt*, installDirs*, installFiles*,
     installExt*, bin*, paths*, entryPoints*: seq[string] = @[] ## Nimble metadata.
@@ -117,6 +118,8 @@ template printSeqIfLen(varName) =
   printSeqIfLen(astToStr(varName), varName)
 
 proc printPkgInfo(): string =
+  #Notice this functions is called by the wrapper to store the package info as a ini file.
+  #We should instead just use the declarative parser to parse the variables of the nimble file. 
   if backend.len == 0:
     backend = "c"
 
@@ -138,7 +141,7 @@ proc printPkgInfo(): string =
   printIfLen srcDir
   printIfLen binDir
   printIfLen backend
-
+  printIfLen testEntryPoint
   printSeqIfLen skipDirs
   printSeqIfLen skipFiles
   printSeqIfLen skipExt

src/nimblepkg/packageinfotypes.nim

@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ type
     entryPoints*: seq[string] #useful for tools like the lsp.
     features*: Table[string, seq[PkgTuple]] #features requires defined in the nimble file. Declarative parser + SAT solver only.
     activeFeatures*: Table[PkgTuple, seq[string]] #features that dependencies of this package have activated. #i.e. requires package[feature1, feature2]
-  
+    testEntryPoint*: string ## The entry point for the test task.
+
   Package* = object ## Definition of package from packages.json.
     # Required fields in a package.
     name*: string

src/nimblepkg/packageparser.nim

@@ -212,6 +212,8 @@ proc readPackageInfoFromNimble(path: string; result: var PackageInfo) =
             result.paths.add(ev.value.multiSplit)
           of "entrypoints":
             result.entryPoints.add(ev.value.multiSplit)
+          of "testentrypoint":
+            result.testEntryPoint = ev.value
           else:
             raise nimbleError("Invalid field: " & ev.key)
         of "deps", "dependencies":