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Mocking a module called from FLAME.call
I’m using Mox to mock some modules in my app. Usually, it works fine but I have a function that I’m calling inside FLAME.call/2 and it broke my mock:
FLAME.call(Zoonk.FLAME.ImageOptimization, fn ->
Zoonk.Storage.optimize!(key, args["size"] || 500)
end)
After I added it to FLAME.call/2, I started getting the following error:
** (Mox.UnexpectedCallError) no expectation defined for Zoonk.Storage.StorageAPIMock.optimize!/2 in process #PID<0.5593.0> with args ["16.png", 500]
(mox 1.1.0) lib/mox.ex:820: Mox.__dispatch__/4
(zoonk 0.1.0) lib/storage/storage_context.ex:177: Zoonk.Storage.optimize!/2
(flame 0.2.0) lib/flame/runner.ex:431: anonymous fn/3 in FLAME.Runner.remote_call/4
I’ve tried calling Mox.allow/3 in test_helper.ex but it didn’t work:
Mox.allow(Zoonk.Storage.StorageAPIMock, self(), fn ->
GenServer.whereis(Zoonk.FLAME.ImageOptimization)
end)
Any ideas how to make it work inside FLAME.call/2? Thanks!
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al2o3cr
Zoonk.FLAME.ImageOptimization is the name of the FLAME.Pool process that manages runners. It receives a :checkout message and returns the actual PID of the runner, which is what you’d need to share the mock with.
al2o3cr
There are three processes involved here:
- the test process, that’s calling
Moxfunctions and the code-under-test - a process running with callbacks defined in the module
FLAME.Pool, namedZoonk.FLAME.ImageOptimization - a runner process, that ultimately tries to call
Zoonk.Storage.optimize!
The Mox.allow you posted in the original post is sharing the mock with the second process, but it’s actually needed in the third.
FLAME.call “checks out” a runner and then sends it work; doing a checkout outside of that will return a different runner process from the pool, so that won’t help.
Your options, IMO, are:
- use Mox globally (with the corresponding loss of concurrency)
- change your architecture slightly: consider wrapping the
FLAME.callin a function and using Mox to replace that. Then, test the code inside theFLAME.callseparately.
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