lok0613
Hello all,
I’m recently doing something similar to ExUnit, keeping a bunch of variables on “setup” block and then pass it to the next block which is “test” just like below.
defmodule MyTest do
use ExUnit.Case, async: true
setup do
{:ok, %{message: "hi"}}
end
test "my test title", %{message, msg} do
IO.puts(msg)
end
end
However, I didn’t managed to do this on my own.
defmodule XUnit do
defmacro __using__(_opts) do
quote do
import XUnit
@setups []
@tests []
@before_compile XUnit
def run() do
IO.puts("Running....")
run_setups()
run_displays()
end
end
end
defmacro setup(do: block) do
fn_name = String.to_atom("setup")
quote do
def unquote(fn_name)(), do: unquote(block)
@setups [unquote(fn_name) | @setups]
end
end
defmacro test(message, var, do: block) do
var = Macro.escape(var)
quote bind_quoted: [message: message, var: var, block: block] do
fn_name = String.to_atom("test " <> message)
def unquote(fn_name)(unquote(var)), do: unquote(block)
@tests [{fn_name, var} | @tests]
end
end
defmacro __before_compile__(_opts) do
quote do
def run_setups() do
@setups
|> Enum.each(fn setup_fn -> apply(__MODULE__, setup_fn, []) end)
end
def run_displays() do
@tests
|> Enum.each(fn {test_fn, params} ->
apply(__MODULE__, test_fn, [params])
end)
end
end
end
end
defmodule Test do
use XUnit
setup do
%{message: "hi"}
end
test "my test title", %{message: msg} do
IO.puts("print from test, #{msg}")
end
end
Test.run()
It turns out this error message.
warning: variable "msg" does not exist and is being expanded to "msg()", please use parentheses to remove the ambiguity or change the variable name
Main.exs:64: Test
** (CompileError) Main.exs:64: undefined function msg/0
(elixir) src/elixir_bitstring.erl:142: :elixir_bitstring.expand_expr/4
(elixir) src/elixir_bitstring.erl:27: :elixir_bitstring.expand/8
(elixir) src/elixir_bitstring.erl:20: :elixir_bitstring.expand/4
expanding macro: XUnit.test/3
I tried many ways but it still not really work as my expectation. This is my first question on elixir forum, so please could anyone give me some idea how to mimic the way that ex_unit was doing?
Thanks so much
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kokolegorille
Hello and welcome,
You do have a syntax error,
It should be…
al2o3cr
Your
testmacro handles arguments differently than the one inExUnit:https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/83ddb923d4294470e3c8d158a5486f89f75e1481/lib/ex_unit/lib/ex_unit/case.ex#L299
I suspect that’s the cause of your immediate error.
You’ll also need to figure out how the return values of
setupblocks make their way to the actual test functions; right now you’re passing the AST received bytest.Enum.eachis likely not the function you want here.lok0613
this is just an example…
lok0613
really… I put
Enum.eachbecause it would be multipletestmacros.al2o3cr
Example or not, unless your test cases have some kind of side-effect you won’t get any results from
Enum.eachbesides:ok.Kabie
There is a trick:
Kabie
Ahh, I was overthinking, this should works already.
But your problem is you didn’t pass results that setup returns to tests, something like:
lok0613
wow that works like a charm!
Thank you @Kabie, @al2o3cr for helping. I’m actually digging into the ExUnit source code see if I could find any clue but it’s quite complex tho.