Enhancement: Inline Tests for Access

[hijonathan]

That's really the most important thing to be testing. Type checking is cool, but it doesn't really mean much if some anonymous dude is able to jam stuff into my database.

[tomlarkworthy]

somewhat trickier to test statically, as often the rules depend on what
data is current in the Firebase. It's definitely something I wish to add
though, but probably not the kind of thing that will be done short term.

Tom

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Jonathan K notifications@github.com wrote:

That's really the most important thing to be testing. Type checking is
cool, but it doesn't really mean much if some anonymous dude is able to jam
stuff into my database.

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[hijonathan]

Could I give it mocks? That's basically what's available to us today.

[tomlarkworthy]

What do you mean by mocks? Like specifying the contents of the Firebase and then testing whether or not something can be inserted/read (or not)? Yeah that would be interesting. I will leave this issue open and maybe we will come back to this.

[hijonathan]

Yeah, that's what I had in mind.

After thinking about it more, I'm not 100% sure it really fits into the scope of this project. Just judging by the name, I wonder if it should just be doing compilation and not testing. That's your call to make, of course :]

Mocks would be sweet and are sorely needed. I bet if you asked 100 Firebase users to write a test for a non-trivial security schema, 95 of them would get some part of it wrong.