Previously, we would CD into the directory of the launch script and
invoke node.exe from there. We did this because the require statement
was a relative path and so we needed to be in the langhost directory for
things to work.
This behavior differs from how we launch things on *nix and was causing
some issues with relative paths, since the CWD would now differ between
Windows and *nix. So instead we construct a full path for our require
statements and don't cd anymore. The only tricky thing is to change path
separators from \ to / when computing the path to the root folder we
should do our require from.
All of our providers expect to be invoked as `node path/to/provider
...provider_args`, but on Windows, we are invoking them as `node -e
require(path/to/provider) ...provider_args`. This throws off the
provider's argument processing and causes connections to the resource
monitor to fail.
Fixes#477, though I think that there is going to be another issue with
dynamic resources.
A dynamic resource is a resource whose provider is implemented alongside
the resource itself. This provider may close over and use orther
resources in the implementation of its CRUD operations. The provider
itself must be stateless, as each CRUD operation for a particular
dynamic resource type may use an independent instance of the provider.
Changes to the definition of a resource's provider result in replacement
of the resource itself (rather than a simple update), as this allows the
old provider definition to delete the old resource and the new provider
definition to create an appropriate replacement.
This resource provider accepts a single configuration parameter, `testing:provider:module`, that is the path to a Javascript module that implements CRUD operations for a set of resource types. This allows e.g. a test case to provide its own implementation of these operations that may succeed or fail in interesting ways.
Fixes#338.
