Make program generated files optional?

[info-rchitect]

Hi,

We have a program assembly tool that recursively searches a test module's repo directory for .tf, .pmfl, and other program generated files. Because we are currently only using the generated .tf file, these files get found and cause test program loading issues. Is it possible to tell origen testers not to create certain files?

thx

[ginty]

Not currently, though you could obviously delete what you don't want from the app side.

Every file that OrigenTesters generates has a corresponding generator class that is responsible for it and each of those is a child class of OrigenTesters::Generator.

There is already a to_be_written? method that is used internally by overriding it within some generator sub-classes which should not create a file - https://github.com/Origen-SDK/origen_testers/blob/master/lib/origen_testers/generator.rb#L257

You could do a PR to allow the value returned by that to be overridden by the application.

Then you could do:

# I don't want a .pmfl to be generated
pattern_master.to_be_written = false

Once you have that, you could also add further syntactic sugar methods if you want:

tester.generate_flow_only = true