Decode the bytes to strings: the MPD protocol specifies that the
communications are all in UTF-8.
Also parse the body into a dict since this is typically more convenient
than having to do it manually in each test.
The MPD protocol allows batching commands. There are two choices for the
first message that announced a batch is starting, and we just go for the
one that causes the server to respond with a marker message between each
individual response, since that's easier. This might need to be tweaked
in order to test the behaviour with the other batch indicator.
MPD now supports more fields ("tags") than what BPD advertises. Fixing
this should be a simple task of extending the mapping of fields to tags
in BPD's implementation.
The current MPD spec is several versions ahead of BPD. These tests just
compare the full specified list of commands against what BPD claims to
support (without actually testing their implementations). It's handy as
a measure of progress against the specification, but can perhaps be
dropped later once all of the individual protocol methods have tests.
This was a vestige from when we used to need the unittest2 library for pre-2.7
compatibility. Now that we require Python 2.7, we aren't using that library
and this indirection wasn't doing any good.
This reverts commit 9c41c39913.
That commit used byte strings for the `if __name__ == '__main__'` pattern,
which was necessary when we were doing unicode_literals. But it is wrong on
Python 3, and now that we're liberated from unicode_literals, we need to go
back to native strings for this comparison.
Include import of __future__ features division, absolute_imports and
print_function everywhere. Don't add unicode_literals yet for it is
harder to convert.
Goal is smoothing the transition to python 3.
