harness: shared test environment WIP

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/packages/taler-harness/src/harness/harness.ts b/packages/taler-harness/src/harness/harness.ts
index c9202c60e..d29b30a5b 100644
--- a/packages/taler-harness/src/harness/harness.ts
+++ b/packages/taler-harness/src/harness/harness.ts
@@ -467,6 +467,22 @@ export async function setupDb(t: GlobalTestState): Promise<DbInfo> {
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Make sure that the taler-integrationtest-shared database exists.
+ * Don't delete it if it already exists.
+ */
+export async function setupSharedDb(t: GlobalTestState): Promise<DbInfo> {
+  const dbname = "taler-integrationtest-shared";
+  const databases = await runCommand(t, "list-dbs", "psql", ["-Aqtl"]);
+  if (databases.indexOf("taler-integrationtest-shared") < 0) {
+    await runCommand(t, "createdb", "createdb", [dbname]);
+  }
+  return {
+    connStr: `postgres:///${dbname}`,
+    dbname,
+  };
+}
+
 export interface BankConfig {
   currency: string;
   httpPort: number;
@@ -857,6 +873,13 @@ export class FakebankService
     accountPassword: string;
   }[] = [];
 
+  /**
+   * Create a new fakebank service handle.
+   * 
+   * First generates the configuration for the fakebank and
+   * then creates a fakebank handle, but doesn't start the fakebank
+   * service yet.
+   */
   static async create(
     gc: GlobalTestState,
     bc: BankConfig,