lib/nitcorn: skip the listening loop when running continuous integration tests

[nit.git] / lib / nitcorn / reactor.nit

diff --git a/lib/nitcorn/reactor.nit b/lib/nitcorn/reactor.nit
index 5bd285d..0fb5cad 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/nitcorn/reactor.nit
+++ b/lib/nitcorn/reactor.nit
@@ -133,10 +133,18 @@ class HttpFactory
 
        redef fun spawn_connection(buf_ev) do return new HttpServer(buf_ev, self)
 
-       # Launch the main loop of this server
+       # Execute the main listening loop to accept connections
+       #
+       # After the loop ends, the underlying resources are freed.
+       #
+       # When the environment variable `NIT_TESTING` is set to `true`,
+       # the loop is not executed but the resources are still freed.
        fun run
        do
-               event_base.dispatch
+               if "NIT_TESTING".environ != "true" then
+                       event_base.dispatch
+               end
+
                event_base.destroy
        end
 end