Hello everyone !
Recently i have been creating a VR Plugin for a very easy task. I managed to make the API/Plugin interaction as small as possible to get only structured data with the goal to have a cleaner API, especially a testable API.
My plugin is structured the same way most are on the internet, it is a repository with the .uplugin folder at it’s root. It is really handy because i can make git submodules to integrate my plugin in projects and with minimal effort it will still work on our CI test and build plateform.
After some time I realised that a .uplugin is not a project and very few things can be done with it. In particular, even if I created tests I wouldn’t be able to run them in my Plugin-Repository specifically.
I found this outdated and unanswered post with the same issue (How to do unit test on a plugin module?).
One lead I found (if ou have another solution, I am very very interesed !) :
However I saw that when you package your project from Command Line (Windows > Bat > RunUAT > BuildPlugin), a “Hostproject” is created to build the plugin inside of the output folder, then deleted and replaced with the build files.
I was wondering if there was a way to do something similair where a hostproject is created, tests are being run and then everything is deleted ?
Is there a way to edit the way the plugin package is being executed to run tests beforehand ? Event if not ideal, I would still be able to execute then on the CI server.
Thanks in advance !
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