The argument to our class factories must be a non-nil string.

4 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/custodian/alertfactory.rb b/lib/custodian/alertfactory.rb
index e176f6d..3df6233 100644
--- a/lib/custodian/alertfactory.rb
+++ b/lib/custodian/alertfactory.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ module Custodian
     #
     def self.create( alert_type, obj )
 
+      raise ArgumentError, "The type of alerter to create cannot be nil" if ( alert_type.nil? )
+      raise ArgumentError, "The type of alerter to create must be a string" unless ( alert_type.kind_of? String )
+
       c = @@subclasses[alert_type]
       if c
         c.new( obj )
diff --git a/lib/custodian/testfactory.rb b/lib/custodian/testfactory.rb
index f5e342d..ccfc89e 100644
--- a/lib/custodian/testfactory.rb
+++ b/lib/custodian/testfactory.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ module Custodian
     #
     def self.create( line )
 
+
+      raise ArgumentError, "The type of test to create cannot be nil" if ( line.nil? )
+      raise ArgumentError, "The type of test to create must be a string" unless ( line.kind_of? String )
+
       #
       # If this is an obvious protocol test.
       #
diff --git a/t/test-custodian-alertfactory.rb b/t/test-custodian-alertfactory.rb
index ede6aa7..4f2fb8d 100755
--- a/t/test-custodian-alertfactory.rb
+++ b/t/test-custodian-alertfactory.rb
@@ -51,6 +51,25 @@ class TestAlertFactory < Test::Unit::TestCase
       assert( obj.respond_to? "raise" )
       assert( obj.respond_to? "clear" )
     end
+
+
+    #
+    # Creating an alert we don't know about is an error
+    #
+    assert_raise ArgumentError do
+      obj = Custodian::AlertFactory.create( "not found", nil )
+    end
+
+    #
+    # A string is mandatory
+    #
+    assert_raise ArgumentError do
+      obj = Custodian::AlertFactory.create( nil, nil )
+    end
+    assert_raise ArgumentError do
+      obj = Custodian::AlertFactory.create( Array.new, nil )
+    end
+
   end
 
 end
diff --git a/t/test-custodian-testfactory.rb b/t/test-custodian-testfactory.rb
index 65abc5b..b210ef9 100755
--- a/t/test-custodian-testfactory.rb
+++ b/t/test-custodian-testfactory.rb
@@ -23,6 +23,23 @@ class TestTestFactory < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
 
   #
+  # Test bogus creation
+  #
+  def test_init
+
+    assert_raise ArgumentError do
+      obj = Custodian::TestFactory.create( nil, nil )
+    end
+
+    assert_raise ArgumentError do
+      obj = Custodian::TestFactory.create( Array.new, nil )
+    end
+
+
+  end
+
+
+  #
   # Test the FTP-test may be created
   #
   def test_ftp_uri