About Janch

Janch is a utility that can be customized for checking anything. It reads what it needs to check from a YAML file.

Features

I just started the tool so the features are limited.

1. Run a linux command and inspect its output
2. Run a grep command and inspect its output
3. Gather content of a web address (http/https) and inspect the response

Installation

Install from PyPi

pip install janch

Run Help

janch --help

Run a sample file

janch run tests/samples/0.sample.yml

Quick Start

1. Create a YAML such as the following

touch sample.yml
vim sample.yml

command-example:
  gather:
    type: command
    command_str: python --version
  inspect:
    result: ^Python 3\.(.*)$

grep-example:
  gather:
    type: grep
    filepath: test.env
    search: '='
  inspect:
    result: (.*)=(.*)
    line_count: 1

webservice-example:
  gather:
    type: http
    url: http://www.example.com
  inspect:
    status: 200

2. Create a sample file for checking

touch test.env
vim test.env

# File Content
Hello=world

3. Run Janch

janch run sample.yml

4. You should get an output that looks as follows

item                            type    field           expected                        actual                          match error
grep-example                    grep    result          (.*)=(.*)                       Hello=world                     True  False
grep-example                    grep    line_count      1                               1                               True  False
grep-example                    grep    error           NOERROR                         NOERROR                         True  False
command-example                 command result          ^Python 3\.(.*)$                Python 3.8.2                    True  False
command-example                 command error           NOERROR                         NOERROR                         True  False
webservice-example              http    status          200                             200                             True  False
webservice-example              http    error           NOERROR                         NOERROR                         True  False

5. The match column shows which of the items from the yaml behaved as expected