Cannot silence test runner

[phrohdoh]

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cargo 0.17.0-nightly (740f9c0 2016-12-29)

We should be able to silence the test runner's stdout via --quiet like build and clean's --quiet flag, but alas this is not currently done.

tmba:sentinel thill $ cargo test --quiet -- quiet

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured


running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured

tmba:sentinel thill $ cargo test --quiet

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured


running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured

ref: rust-lang/cargo#3482

[sfackler]

--quiet prints a compact version of the normal output:

    Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs
     Running /Users/sfackler/code/rust-openssl/target/debug/deps/openssl-3ace7e2ac4871275

running 146 tests
..................................................................................................................................................
test result: ok. 146 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured

Seems reasonable for --quiet --quiet to completely suppress output though.

[phrohdoh]

But --quiet doesn't even do that for me.

tmba:sentinel thill $ cargo test --quiet

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured


running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured

tmba:sentinel thill $ cargo test -- --quiet
    Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs
     Running target/debug/deps/sentinel-0ecd9a282af25c50

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured

   Doc-tests sentinel

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured

[sfackler]

Why doesn't it? It's displaying zero dots for the zero tests it ran.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

I feel like ultimately -qq could silence test runs completely and just return the exit code; or perhaps we could have an --exit-code option that did the equivalent.

[flyingmutant]

Even with cargo test --quiet -- --quiet (!), it is excessively verbose:

$ cargo test --quiet -- --quiet

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out


running 7 tests
.......
test result: ok. 7 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out


running 1 test
.
test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out


running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

With --all, this output can easily span multiple pages for a reasonably sized workspace.

It would be nice to merge all the blocks instead, to eliminate the useless noise (and make --all output actually glanceable):

$ cargo test --quiet -- --quiet
running 8 tests
........
test result: ok. 8 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

[dtolnay]

I agree that an even quieter setting would be valuable. I would like to see a PR with an implementation.

In general there is a lot of room for improvement in the cargo test experience. At some point I would love for someone to reimagine how cargo test would work in an ideal world -- a bit like what has been done for error messages over the past year. It would be so wonderful if someone takes the initiative to come up with some design proposals. The RFCs repo or the users forum would be the place to follow up.

[steveklabnik]

Triage: no changes