"use strict"; const {strict: assert} = require("assert"); const {mock_esm, zrequire} = require("./lib/namespace"); const {run_test, noop} = require("./lib/test"); /* Our test from an earlier example verifies that the update events leads to a name change inside the people object, but it obviously kind of glosses over the other interactions. We can go a step further and verify the sequence of operations that happen during an event. This concept is called "stubbing", and you can find libraries to help do stubbing. Here we will just build our own lightweight stubbing system, which is almost trivially easy to do in a language like JavaScript. */ // First we tell the compiler to skip certain modules and just // replace them with {}. const huddle_data = mock_esm("../src/huddle_data"); const message_lists = mock_esm("../src/message_lists"); const message_notifications = mock_esm("../src/message_notifications"); const message_util = mock_esm("../src/message_util"); const pm_list = mock_esm("../src/pm_list"); const stream_list = mock_esm("../src/stream_list"); const unread_ops = mock_esm("../src/unread_ops"); const unread_ui = mock_esm("../src/unread_ui"); message_lists.current = { data: { filter: { can_apply_locally() { return true; }, }, }, }; message_lists.all_rendered_message_lists = () => [message_lists.current]; // And we will also test some real code, of course. const message_events = zrequire("message_events"); const message_store = zrequire("message_store"); const people = zrequire("people"); const isaac = { email: "isaac@example.com", user_id: 30, full_name: "Isaac Newton", }; people.add_active_user(isaac); /* Next we create a test_helper that will allow us to redirect methods to an events array, and we can then later verify that the sequence of side effect is as predicted. (Note that for now we don't simulate return values nor do we inspect the arguments to these functions. We could easily extend our helper to do more.) The forthcoming example is a pretty extreme example, where we are calling a pretty high level method that dispatches a lot of its work out to other objects. */ function test_helper({override}) { const events = []; return { redirect(module, func_name) { override(module, func_name, () => { events.push([module, func_name]); }); }, events, }; } run_test("insert_message", ({override}) => { message_store.clear_for_testing(); override(pm_list, "update_private_messages", noop); const helper = test_helper({override}); const new_message = { sender_id: isaac.user_id, id: 1001, content: "example content", topic: "Foo", }; assert.equal(message_store.get(new_message.id), undefined); helper.redirect(huddle_data, "process_loaded_messages"); helper.redirect(message_notifications, "received_messages"); helper.redirect(message_util, "add_new_messages_data"); helper.redirect(message_util, "add_new_messages"); helper.redirect(stream_list, "update_streams_sidebar"); helper.redirect(unread_ops, "process_visible"); helper.redirect(unread_ui, "update_unread_counts"); message_events.insert_new_messages([new_message]); // Even though we have stubbed a *lot* of code, our // tests can still verify the main "narrative" of how // the code invokes various objects when a new message // comes in: assert.deepEqual(helper.events, [ [huddle_data, "process_loaded_messages"], [message_util, "add_new_messages_data"], [message_util, "add_new_messages"], [unread_ui, "update_unread_counts"], [unread_ops, "process_visible"], [message_notifications, "received_messages"], [stream_list, "update_streams_sidebar"], ]); // Despite all of our stubbing/mocking, the call to // insert_new_messages will have created a very important // side effect that we can verify: const inserted_message = message_store.get(new_message.id); assert.equal(inserted_message.id, new_message.id); assert.equal(inserted_message.content, "example content"); });