Custom reporters not allowed from cli

[geek]

Need to allow custom reporters to be allowed by the CLI, as reported by the readme

[PizzaBrandon]

Sorry to bother on a closed ticket, but I'm not sure if what I'm dealing with is a related bug or if I'm using this incorrectly.

I just wrote and published a Lab reporter for Bamboo, installed it locally on a package I'm attempting to test, installed lab globally (verified it's 5.15.1), and ran lab -r lab-bamboo-reporter. It gave me the following error:

~/workspaces/project-under-test$ lab -r lab-bamboo-reporter
module.js:338
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'lab-bamboo-reporter'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.internals.requireReporter (/Users/###/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules/lab/lib/reporters/index.js:34:12)
    at Object.exports.generate (/Users/###/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules/lab/lib/reporters/index.js:59:65)
    at Object.exports.report (/Users/###/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules/lab/lib/runner.js:58:30)
    at Object.exports.run (/Users/###/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules/lab/lib/cli.js:49:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/###/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules/lab/bin/lab:3:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    ...

But if I run lab -r ./node_modules/lab-bamboo-reporter, it succeeds.

Am I reading the usage instructions wrong and lab expects the plugin to be installed globally or is this a bug in the implementation?

[geek]

Interesting. What if you install locally and run lab? I like to avoid global installs and just use the local binaries. If you don't have the path setup for ./node_modules/.bin then you can run as:

./node_modules/.bin/lab -r lab-bamboo-reporter

I wonder if this is an issue with the global install not respecting the current working directory.

[PizzaBrandon]

$ ./node_modules/.bin/lab -r lab-bamboo-reporter gives the correct test result output.

[PizzaBrandon]

I will amend my package's usage instructions to match this requirement, but I do hope you are able to find a solution that allows the global install to also work since the readme recommends it as a best practice.

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