Add a test suite to detect backwards-incompatibility of new changes - #28
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participant ReleaseScript as release.sh
participant Pixi
participant Writer as write_reference
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The repository sets '* text=auto'; frozen compatibility reference files in ROOT format are about to be committed and must never be subject to text normalisation. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-fable-5
write_reference writes a small RNTuple with the canonical value recipe from reference_values.hpp. The recipe compiles unmodified against the headers of every released tag: headers added later are guarded with __has_include and members added later with member detection inside function templates, so the same source can backfill reference files for old tags and write the current one at release time. Values match the SHiP::test::make* generators for members that existed at v0.1.0, with distinctive values for later members so they are exercised too. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-fable-5
One frozen reference RNTuple per released version, written by the tag's own headers (which define the on-disk schema) via the version-agnostic writer, plus reference_head.root tracking main (regenerated with 'pixi run update-reference-head' whenever the event model changes). The backfilled files were all written by the ROOT pinned in pixi.lock (6.40.02), so they freeze the historical schemas but not the historical writer-ROOT versions; files for future releases are written at release time and capture both. Frozen files are never rewritten. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-fable-5
One ctest test per committed reference file, for clear failure attribution. The reader opens the RNTuple without an imposed model, so the on-disk descriptor and the current dictionary drive automatic schema evolution: members map by name and members absent on disk come back default-initialized. Expected values are the canonical recipe, masked to the writing version (geometryNodeId for pre-v0.4.0 files, RecParticle::hits for pre-v0.3.0); top-level field presence is also checked against the version. A change that breaks reading of existing data now fails CI. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-fable-5
schema_snapshot dumps the persistent schema of every dictionary class (TClass version, checksum and members, plus the RNTuple field tree of a probe model) and compares it against the committed snapshot, so any schema change - even a backward-compatible one - fails CI until the snapshot is deliberately regenerated with 'pixi run update-schema-snapshot' in the same PR. The class list is derived from LinkDef.h at configure time, so newly linked classes enter the snapshot automatically; this also covers classes not exercised by the reference files (detector wrappers, TrackFitResult). Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-fable-5
The workspace build directory is the one the compatibility suite and scripts/release.sh drive, but the configure task left BUILD_TESTING at whatever the CMake cache happened to hold. A directory last configured the way the conda package builds it (-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF) therefore contains no build/tests, so pixi run test silently exercises nothing and the release script cannot find build/tests/write_reference. Passing -D on the command line also overwrites a stale cache entry, so the directory is brought back into a testable state rather than needing to be wiped by hand. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
scripts/release.sh now writes tests/data/reference_v<version>.root from exactly the tagged code, with the ROOT version pinned in pixi.lock at that moment - capturing both the schema and the writing ROOT - refreshes the schema snapshot, and gates the release on the test suite (which picks up the new file via the CMake glob). Refuses to overwrite an existing reference file. The file is provisional until it has been validated: it must sit at its frozen path while the tests run, so the EXIT trap covers that path too and is only cleared once the snapshot regeneration and the test suite have both passed. A release that fails validation therefore leaves nothing behind for the exists-check to trip over on the retry, which git checkout could not clean up on its own. The writer runs through pixi like every other step, rather than relying on the RPATH baked into the binary, and a missing build/tests explains itself instead of failing on a bare "No such file". Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-fable-5 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
tests/data/README.md is the contract: which files exist, why the frozen ones are never rewritten, the failure playbook for the compat and snapshot tests, and the value recipe (language-neutral, so a future Python/uproot reader can check the same files). README and CONTRIBUTING point to it. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-fable-5
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Prompted by a discussion with @matclim, I decided to implement an idea I had a while to test for compatibility of the data model between versions (which we were bitten by many times in FairShip).
This set of changes (while the overall PR is large, each commit aims to be small and reviewable) introduces tests to read old data files; a script to generate a new test file on release; a script to backfill test files for the old releases and documentation.
There's also a schema snapshot and a pixi task to update the schema.
In a follow-up, we could/should probably also test for cross-language compatibility.
#25 will probably be a good test of this machinery.
Note: ROOT can handle quite a few changes automatically, e.g. field reordering, type changes, field addition. The schema test should (intentionally) still flag these, to that we don't rely on ROOT's magic alone.
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