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Abtin Keshavarzian 5cae26e22b [coap] simplify Coap::Message implementation (#12313)
This change simplifies the `Coap::Message` implementation and removes
the fragile `HelpData` struct which was used to cache header
information within reserved portion of message.

The `Coap::Msg` class is updated to hold the parsed CoAP header
information (type, code, message ID, token). It now inherits from a
new `HeaderInfo` class which contains the parsed fields. This change
helps to simplify many of the call sites which previously had to parse
the header information themselves.

The key changes are:
- The `HelpData` struct is removed from `Coap::Message`.
- `Coap::Msg` is updated to track parsed header info in `HeaderInfo`.
- `otCoapMessageInit()` and `otCoapMessageInitResponse()` now return an
  `otError`.
- Methods are renamed to harmonize their names.
- A new unit test `test_coap_message.cpp` is added to verify the
  `Coap::Message` implementation.
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OpenThread Unit Tests

This page describes how to build and run OpenThread unit tests. It will be helpful for developers to debug failed unit test cases if they got one in CI or to add some new test cases.

Build Simulation

The unit tests cannot be built solely without building the whole project. So first build OpenThread on the simulation platform, which will also build all unit tests:

# Go to the root directory of OpenThread
$ script/cmake-build simulation

List all tests

To see what tests are available in OpenThread:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ctest -N

Run the Unit Tests

To run all the unit tests:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ctest

To run a specific unit test, for example, ot-test-spinel:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ctest -R ot-test-spinel

Update a Test Case

If you are developing a unit test case and have made some changes in the test source file, you will need rebuild the test before running it:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ninja <test_name>

This will only build the test and take a short time.

If any changes or fixes were made to the OpenThread code, then you'll need to rebuild the entire project:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ninja

This will build the updated OpenThread code as well as the test cases.