go test -timeout 30m can this be set inside Go code? disable timeouts programmatically?

[Jason E. Aten]

I have a long running test where I would like to set the testing package timeout to 30 minutes from with the my_test.go code.

This would prevent me from forgetting to add the timeout flag, and then discovering 10 minutes later that it was needed.

Is this possible? Or just a way to disable the timeouts all together from Go _test.go code.

[Mike P]

I was able to accomplish this via the flag library in my testing function:

flag.Set("test.timeout", "30m0s")

​

I found that being read from here:

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/d21953df047868ed3bcfd0172a6c1672642f5b4a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_timeout.txt#L22

So then I just changed the Lookup() function to the Set() function. Here's my working example when using go test to execute some terragrunt / terraform tests:

func TestBasicRun(t *testing.T) {
        flag.Set("test.timeout", "30m0s")
        fmt.Println("timeout: " + flag.Lookup("test.timeout").Value.String())

        terraformOptions := &terraform.Options{
                TerraformBinary: "terragrunt",
                TerraformDir:    "./basic-run",
                Lock:            true,
        }

        defer terraform.Destroy(t, terraformOptions)

        terraform.InitAndApplyAndIdempotent(t, terraformOptions)
}

​

I think you can disable it by setting it to something like: 

"0m0s"

​

[Mike P]

Actually, that doesn't work. My apologies. If I figure it out, I will reply.

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