refactor: use format.py constants for metadata record names in testing.py - #88
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…g.py METADATA_RECORD_EPISODE and EPISODE_KEY_ROBOT_SOFTWARE_VERSION now own the strings that testing.py previously spelled by hand at all five format-owned sites, matching the transform.py pattern. Closes Hebbian-Robotics#62
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Thank you @ayam04. Complete and correctly scoped, and you counted better than my issue did: the body listed four sites and there are five, since synthesize_episode's own metadata dict carries robot_software_version too. You caught it, which is the whole point of the change.
Also right to leave task, operator, and success as literals. EPISODE_KEY_ROBOT_SOFTWARE_VERSION is the only episode key with a constant in format.py, so converting the others would have meant inventing constants the format does not own yet. Matching what exists beats being tidy.
What I validated locally:
- Full quality gate is clean (
ruff check,ruff format --check,ty check) and all 380 tests pass on your branch against currentmain. - The definition-of-done grep comes back empty, and I confirmed zero remaining hardcoded occurrences of either string in the module.
- Generated a synthetic episode through
synthesize_episodeafterwards to confirm the fixtures still write a real, readable file rather than merely type-checking.
On the tests/test_ffmpeg.py failures: environment, not your change, and they pass here. Checking them against a clean main worktree before reporting is the right habit, and it is the second time you have done it. It genuinely saves me time.
Merging now.
One note I owe you, and it applies from here rather than as a complaint about this PR: the good first issue pool is best kept for people making their first contribution, and with #79 already merged you are past that. Nothing wrong with this one, and I would rather you had taken it than have it sit. But for the next one, the higher-leverage work is where you have already shown range: you did the layering analysis that shaped action_rate back in #24, and that kind of reasoning is worth more here than a mechanical refactor. Two live examples if either appeals, neither a starter issue: #86, where registering a check with required keyword arguments is accepted and then fails once per episode, and #85, where RuntimeConfig(api_port=True) slips through a range check because bool subclasses int. Never a rule, always an invitation.
What changed
src/hflow/testing.pyspelled format-owned metadata strings by hand at five sites ("episode/v1"and"robot_software_version"). It now imports and uses the constants that own those names,METADATA_RECORD_EPISODEandEPISODE_KEY_ROBOT_SOFTWARE_VERSIONfromhflow/format.py, mirroring the pattern already used intransform.py(its metadata handling attransform.py:444-446).Sites changed (per issue #62):
_video_episode_metadata: dict key +reserved_metadata_keysentry_write_video_episode(video fixture):writer.add_metadata(name=...)_write_episode_with_channels(channel fixture):writer.add_metadata(name=...)+ metadata dict keyRuntime behavior is unchanged — the constants hold the same strings.
Validation (run in WSL2, since HFlow imports
fcntland native Windows cannot import it)The
tests/test_ffmpeg.pyfailures are environment-only on this machine (they need realffmpeg/ffprobebinaries on PATH): I ran the same file on a cleanmainworktree and got the identical3 failed, 18 passed, 1 skipped, 6 errors, so they are pre-existing and unrelated to this change.Also verified the issue's DoD grep is now empty:
Fixes #62