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I have a Behaviour that forces whoever implements it to implement a couple functions. For the sake of this discussion, let’s take the examples from the behaviours documentation.
defmodule Parser do
@callback parse(String.t) :: {:ok, term} | {:error, String.t}
@callback extensions() :: [String.t]
end
Now, let’s imagine that I see some repetition in the modules that implement this behaviour or that I want to add an universal parse! method. The preferred approach for this would be to use dynamic dispatching:
defmodule Parser do
@callback parse(String.t) :: {:ok, term} | {:error, String.t}
@callback extensions() :: [String.t]
def parse!(implementation, contents) do
case implementation.parse(contents) do
{:ok, data} -> data
{:error, error} -> raise ArgumentError, "parsing error: #{error}"
end
end
end
But now I am left with a question. How would I test parse! ?
Since this is pretty much working like an abstarct class at this point, how would you test it?
The only way I see it would be to use a Mock for the implementation parameter, but I am not sure about this approach.
Any ideas?
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yurko
I’d go for a bit of macros and implement a module that has the repetitive pars and is
used by other modules that can override this functionality. S. GenServer for an example: elixir/lib/elixir/lib/gen_server.ex at v1.7.3 · elixir-lang/elixir · GitHub unless your server module implements it’s own terminate/2 the default is called.Qqwy
Creating a ‘fake’, or ‘simple’ implementation of the behaviour for testing purposes is a very common approach, so you do not have to feel unsure about this one
.
Of course, this only is able to test the behaviour itself, not the various implementations of it.