[BUG] Not able to run functional test on my MacOS

[seraphjiang]

Describe the bug

Clone repo and pull code,

try to run functional test ciGroup1 on my local Mac, but got error,

huanji@88665a37b322 huan-osd % node scripts/functional_tests.js --include ciGroup1

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 warn    Don't forget to use `node scripts/build_opensearch_dashboards_platform_plugins` to build plugins you plan on testing
 warn ❗️❗️❗️
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 warn ❗️❗️❗️
 info Running /Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/test/functional/config.js
 │ info Config loaded
 │ info Only running suites (and their sub-suites) if they include the tag(s): [ 'ciGroup1' ]
 │ info Installing from snapshot
     │ info version: 2.0.1
     │ info install path: /Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/.opensearch/opensearch-test-cluster
     │ info license: oss
     │ warn [opensearch-dashboards] already stopped

Snapshots are only available for Linux
    at exports.createCliError (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-opensearch/target/errors.js:33:17)
    at getArtifactSpecForSnapshotFromUrl (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-opensearch/target/artifact.js:210:11)
    at Function.getSnapshot (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-opensearch/target/artifact.js:298:32)
    at Object.installSnapshot [as downloadSnapshot] (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-opensearch/target/install/snapshot.js:73:35)
    at installSnapshot (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-opensearch/target/install/snapshot.js:105:21)
    at Cluster.installSnapshot (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-opensearch/target/cluster.js:178:15)
    at OpenSearchTestCluster.start (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-test/src/legacy_opensearch/legacy_opensearch_test_cluster.js:95:38)
    at runOpenSearch (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-test/src/functional_tests/lib/run_opensearch.js:56:17)
    at /Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-test/src/functional_tests/tasks.js:113:28
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)
    at withProcRunner (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-dev-utils/target/proc_runner/with_proc_runner.js:45:9)
    at runTests (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-test/src/functional_tests/tasks.js:108:5)
    at /Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-test/src/functional_tests/cli/run_tests/cli.js:46:5
    at runCli (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-test/src/functional_tests/lib/run_cli.js:52:5)
    at Object.runTestsCli (/Users/huanji/src/huan-osd/packages/osd-test/src/functional_tests/cli/run_tests/cli.js:44:3)

Expected behavior

1. developer should be able to run any functional test from most popular OS (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
2. add documentation to list all environment variable which are supported and useful to run test e.g. export TEST_OPENSEARCH_FROM=

[ashwin-pc]

I agree, especially since this makes writing functional tests quite painful. What are the current limitations for enabling this?

[aoguan1990]

We do not officially support for MacOS.
Related Issue:

• OpenSearch Dashboards Repo: #2088
• OpenSearch Build Repo: #38

[seraphjiang]

the request is to ask for support Mac

[kavilla]

Triage:

Thanks @seraphjiang perhaps we can get escalation on mac support on the build repo issue? opensearch-project/opensearch-build#38 since this issue is blocked by the build repo issue.

[joshuarrrr]

@kavilla is this closed via #3537