Description
This plugin tries to do a diff of two directories, a local and a remote one. The idea is to mimic the functionality implemented by the linux command “diff” when invoked with two directories. Four configurable parameter exist:
- local_dir
- remote_url_path
- banned_ext
- content
This plugin will read the file list inside “local_dir”, and for each file it will request the same filename from the “remote_url_path”, matches and failures are recorded and saved. The content of both files is checked only if “content” is set to True and the file extension isn’t in the “banned_ext” list. The “banned_ext” list should be used to ban script extensions like ASP, PHP, etc.
Plugin type
Options
| Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help |
| content | boolean | True | When comparing, also compare the content of files. | No detailed help available |
| local_dir | string | The local directory used in the comparison. | No detailed help available | |
| remote_url_path | url | http://host.tld/ | The remote directory used in the comparison. | No detailed help available |
| banned_ext | list | [‘asp’, ‘jsp’, ‘php’] | When comparing content of two files, ignore files with theseextensions. | No detailed help available |
Source
For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, there’s always the source code to understand exactly what’s under the hood:
Plugin source code
Unittest source code
Dependencies
This plugin has no dependencies.
