On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:40 AM, James OBrien wrote:
> hey, thanks for reading:
>
> I have a problem which can be reduced to this,
>
> from within an example of mine I call the helper 'expect_call' which is
> defined thus:
>
> def expect_call(hash)
> obj.should_receive(:some_
> method).with(hash)
> end
>
> and in one of my examples the 'expected' hash is strictly defined as follows
>
> expect_call({
> :some_key => [1,2,3]
> })
>
> however my spec fails because it is actually called with
>
> {
> :some_key => [1,3,2]
> }
>
> or maybe
>
> {
> :some_key => [2,3,1]
> }
>
> or
>
> {
> :some_key => [2,1,3]
> }
>
> i.e. the array part is not in the order i 'expect' BUT i don't actually care
> about the order. So I would like to be able to change my one example to
> something like this:
>
> expect_call({
> :some_key => [1,2,3].ignoring_order
> })
>
> does such a concept exist or do I have to change the implementation of
> expect_call to use some sort of custom matcher - I am reluctant to do this
> since this method is called in other cases where maybe (for arguments sake) I
> DO care about array ordering within the hash.
rspec-expectations lets you do this:
foo.bar.should =~ [1,2,3]
This passes as long as the array contains exactly those three elements in any
order. You can use this now in conjunction with rspec-mocks, like this:
foo.should_receive(:bar) do |hash|
hash[:some_key].should =~ [1,2,3]
end
It's a bit more verbose than what you're looking for, but it can get you there
with rspec as/is today.
Going forward, we might want to consider an array_including argument matcher
for rspec-mocks. We already have a hash_including matcher that works like this:
foo.should_receive(:bar).with(hash_including(:a => 'b'))
Similarly we could have:
foo.should_receive(:bar).with(array_including(1,2,3))
The only problem with this is the name: array_including could mean different
things (ordered/unordered, only these elements or subset, etc). The
hash_including matcher is specifically about a subset of a hash. But perhaps we
could extend this with something like you proposed above:
foo.should_receive(:bar).with(array_including(1,2,3))
foo.should_receive(:bar).with(array_including(1,2,3).ingoring_order)
foo.should_receive(:bar).with(array_including(1,2,3).only.ingoring_order)
The thing is, I'm not sure this is any better than the example I gave above,
which is very precise and works today. Thoughts/opinions welcome.
> Hope someone can solve this for me - MUCH appreciation.
As an aside, when passing a hash as an argument you don't need to use curly
braces, as long as the hash is the last argument to the method. These two are
equivalent:
expect_call(1, :a, {:some_key => 'some value'})
expect_call(1, :a, :some_key => 'some value')
HTH,
David
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