[jira] [Created] (MESOS-4317) Document use of mesos specific future design patterns in gmock test framework

["Avinash Sridharan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Avinash Sridharan created MESOS-4317:
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             Summary: Document use of mesos specific future design patterns in gmock test framework
                 Key: MESOS-4317
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-4317
             Project: Mesos
          Issue Type: Documentation
            Reporter: Avinash Sridharan
            Priority: Minor


Mesos relies heavily on google test and google mock frameworks for its unit test infrastructure. In order to support unit testing of mesos classes that are inherently designed to be multi-threaded (or multi-process), and asynchronous in nature, the libprocess future/promise design patterns have been used to expose a set of API that allow for asynchronous callbacks within the mesos specific gmock test framework (3rdparty/libprocess/include/process/gmock.hpp) . 

Given that these future/promise based API is very specific to the apache mesos test framework it would be good to have documentation to better inform developers (especially newbies) of the infrastructure and its use-cases.  



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