Option to negate tags in runtests

[deltamarnix]

Would it be possible to write a negation when supplying tags to runtests()?

For example, I have a @testitem "do_a_lot" tags=["long"], and I only want to run all the tests that are not tagged long.
It would be great if I could specify runtests(tags=["!long"]), or runtests(exclude_tags=["long"]).

I'm referring to this part in the documentation: https://docs.juliahub.com/General/ReTestItems/stable/autodocs/#ReTestItems.runtests

[deltamarnix]

As a workaround I have now used prefixes in the name of the test instead: @testitem "long_do_a_lot", and used a Regex: runtests(name=r"^(?!long_).*")

[nickrobinson251]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. You can do this by passing a filter function as the first argument to runtests e.g.

not_long(testitem) = !in(:long, testitem.tags)
runtests(not_long)

or equivalently

runtests(ti -> !(:long in ti.tags))

i think we decided not to support a way to negate tags, since at that point the log of name, tags and (a hypothetical) exclude_tags gets quite complex, and you're better of just writing the logic in Julia, hence supporting the option to pass a function that filters on the name and tags directly.

Does that help?