Issue with creating JSON output for Busted lua unit testing

Question

So I have some simple unit tests setup in busted. I am a little new to LUA, so I may be missing something obvious.

When I run:

lua test.lua

I get expected results (7 succeed, 1 failed on purpose to try out busted) in the nice terminal output.

My ultimate goal however is to output JSON results, and have a script that consumes JSON from multiple tests to make some summary pages for my fellow WoW addon developers.

When I run:

lua test.lua -o json

my terminal pauses for a brief second, and I am returned to the command line.

There is no terminal output, nor is any file created.

I am relatively new to lua and busted in general, could you provide me any pointers?

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And here is a link to Busted's website.

Answer 1

The issue in question was caused by dkjson module not using functions in tables properly. The bug was fixed in pull request #449, so, You should wait for the fix to get to next release candidate (>2.0.rc10-0) of Busted or just download and build recent version from here. Btw, relevant bug report - #448.