I’ve been learning Google Apps Script, which is basically JavaScript. I’ve also been learning Test Driven Development. Sure, let’s learn three new things at the same time!
I was motivated to try TDD by this video:
(All of the example code mentioned in this article can be found at: example/clean-code.)
My google drive was getting cluttered with files that were named by others, who had a (bad) habit of using spaces and lots of other special characters in the file names. (Usually, this is because people try to encode too much information into a file name. But that is another topic.) I would download, version, and process some files, then upload them. Spaces and special characters in the file names messed up my ability to write “simple” bash scripts. So how about a renaming tool to normalize the file names? I.e., convert all the non-alphanumeric characters to ‘_’ (also allow ‘.’ and ‘-‘).
For the tests, I needed to create and recreate test folders and files in Google Drive. It was really tedious to do manually. So let’s automate it. I wrote a routine that would parse a nested array structure that represented the folders and files.
This was the object that I created. (This is the first version. I now have a version where you can optionally pass the array as a parameter.) See: test-refactor-before.js
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