Testing Framework for CI / CD

[egandro]

Hey @WebReflection !

Can we have a chat about a (universal) testing framework?

As mentioned in the PR, I would love to have a json file.

[
  { 
    "file": "file://tests/foo.json",
    "normal_sha256": "....",
    "flattened_sha256": "...."
  },
  { 
    "file": "https:://somewhere/extenal/foo.json,
    "normal_sha256": "....",
    "flattened_sha256": "...."
  }
]

We normalize the json, and do a sha256.

cat foo.json | jq --sort-keys -r . | sha256sum | awk '{ print $1 }')

After the flatten, we also normalize and sha256 and validate the sum.

And then we unflatten and validate the original sum.

We run this for every implementation. We need to get the same sha256.

It is also ok, if we use the original implementation and we generate a flattened json using cyclic graphs.

[WebReflection]

I think we need CI to be able to execute everything in one instance:

• Go
• PHP
• Python
• JS (either Bun, Node, who cares)

that way we can make that part of the build steps and if something fails the MR gets blocked?

[egandro]

I use the existing [test-dummy.sh](https://github.com/WebReflection/flatted/blob/main/test-dummy.sh)

and make a suggestion

[WebReflection]

@egandro thoughts about this? #97 basically it uses a simple enough output with most critical types such as strings, numbers, highly nested recursion and ordered array ... it misses the go implementation which I could vibe-code but I wonder if that'd be OK to satisfy this ticket, I don't have much more time to do anything more convoluted and I believe it shouldn't be needed neither.

[WebReflection]

@egandro if I don't receive an answer ina few days I'll close this.