Subj : xtrn/syncivision/test_lobby_headless.js
To   : Git commit to main/sbbs/master
From : Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)
Date : Fri Jul 10 2026 01:39:22

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/c5c821ce2ef5b886a4d3d24f
Added Files:
	xtrn/syncivision/test_lobby_headless.js
Log Message:
syncivision: drive the lobby headless, without a terminal

"The screen cannot be tested" turned out to be only half true. lobby.js
needs console, bbs and user, which jsexec does not provide -- but those
are three objects, and a script can supply them. Stub them, feed a
scripted key sequence, and capture the command line the lobby would
hand to the door.

That catches every failure this file can have before a player meets
it: a parse error, a misnamed model-layer call, a wrong argument
order, and above all an unquoted cartridge path, which would silently
truncate at the first space in "4-TRIS (2000) (Joseph Zbiciak).int".

The test refuses to run when a plays.jsonl already exists. `system` is
a permanent global in jsexec, so assigning to it does not shadow the
real data_dir: the lobby's play record lands in the sysop's actual
activity log, and the test would then delete it. Better to refuse.

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