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MarcoFalke ae8f797135 Merge #20210: net: assert CNode::m_inbound_onion is inbound in ctor, add getter, unit tests
86c495223f net: add CNode::IsInboundOnion() public getter and unit tests (Jon Atack)
6609eb8cb5 net: assert CNode::m_inbound_onion is inbound in ctor (Jon Atack)
993d1ecd19 test, fuzz: fix constructing CNode with invalid inbound_onion (Jon Atack)

Pull request description:

  The goal of this PR is to be able to depend on `m_inbound_onion` in AttemptToEvictConnection in #20197:

  - asserts `CNode::m_inbound_onion` is inbound in the CNode ctor to have a validity check at the class boundary
  - fixes a unit test and a fuzz utility that were passing invalid inbound onion values to the CNode ctor
  - drops an unneeded check in `CNode::ConnectedThroughNetwork()` for its inbound status
  - adds a public getter `IsInboundOnion()` that also allows unit testing it
  - adds unit test coverage

ACKs for top commit:
  sipa:
    utACK 86c495223f
  LarryRuane:
    ACK 86c495223f
  vasild:
    ACK 86c495223f
  MarcoFalke:
    review ACK 86c495223f 🐍

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Unit tests

The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since Bitcoin Core already uses Boost, it makes sense to simply use this framework rather than require developers to configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).

The build system is set up to compile an executable called test_bitcoin that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file for the test library is found in util/setup_common.cpp.

Compiling/running unit tests

Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in ./configure and tests weren't explicitly disabled.

After configuring, they can be run with make check.

To run the unit tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed to run the unit tests.

To add more unit tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing .cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.

To run the GUI unit tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt

To add more GUI unit tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.

Running individual tests

test_bitcoin has some built-in command-line arguments; for example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:

test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- DEBUG_LOG_OUT

log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a test case is entered, for example. The DEBUG_LOG_OUT after the two dashes redirects the debug log, which would normally go to a file in the test datadir (BasicTestingSetup::m_path_root), to the standard terminal output.

... or to run just the doubledash test:

test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/doubledash

Run test_bitcoin --help for the full list.

Adding test cases

To add a new unit test file to our test suite you need to add the file to src/Makefile.test.include. The pattern is to create one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create unit tests. The file naming convention is <source_filename>_tests.cpp and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite called <source_filename>_tests. For an example of this pattern, see uint256_tests.cpp.

Logging and debugging in unit tests

make check will write to a log file foo_tests.cpp.log and display this file on failure. For running individual tests verbosely, refer to the section above.

To write to logs from unit tests you need to use specific message methods provided by Boost. The simplest is BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE.

For debugging you can launch the test_bitcoin executable with gdbor lldb and start debugging, just like you would with any other program:

gdb src/test/test_bitcoin