You could just get the entire mailbox as a list and then. assert mailbox == [1, 2, 3] No extra macros required.
Cheers, Louis On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, 15:59 José Valim, <jose.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > How is that different from asserting each of them was received followed by > a refute_received _? My concern about such helper is that it may imply an > ordering which we likely won’t assert. Although one could argue the same > about multiple assert_received calls. > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 16:04 Tobias Pfeiffer <prag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I've happily been using a little helper for quite some time and Devon >> liked it as well so thought might propose it: >> >> I often want to make sure that a bunch of messages were received but >> exactly these messages and no more. >> >> Enter assert_received_exactly - it gets a list of expected messages and >> it expects that each of them arrives no more than specified. (as always >> sorry if something like this has been proposed before, haven't seen >> anything) >> >> E.g. >> >> assert_received_exactly [:foo, :foo, :bar] >> >> passes if we received :foo 2 times and :bar one time. It fails if we >> receive :foo or :bar more often or less often. >> >> Other usage example at [1]. >> >> In the current implementation [2] receiving :baz won't fail the test as >> only expected values are checked. This is currently done because there >> are some messages being received that have nothing to do with the >> current thing under test (I stub out some interactions with dummy >> modules that send messages instead of doing work like [3]). >> >> I realize it's a very thin wrapper atm but having it part pf ExUnit >> would probably still help people and make tests better overall. >> >> Happy to try & convert it to a macro and PR it if this helper is desired >> :) (probably also with more custom error messages) >> >> Thanks for considering and for great community work and a great language! >> :) >> Tobi >> >> [1] >> >> https://github.com/PragTob/benchee/blob/3b60c17b067a7e7503cb0fb6e40bdc92ffde3fbd/test/benchee/benchmark/runner_test.exs#L854-L867 >> [2] >> >> https://github.com/PragTob/benchee/blob/master/test/support/test_helpers.ex#L23-L29 >> [3] https://devonestes.herokuapp.com/my-new-favorite-elixir-testing-trick >> -- >> http://www.pragtob.info/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/e9f08407-830b-0e38-db5d-34d0672f247c%40gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > > *José Valimwww.plataformatec.com.br > <http://www.plataformatec.com.br/>Founder and Director of R&D* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JunuWKNwUkuqPD6-fOCLC_WZDLas%2BsmKHE4L978uNzMg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JunuWKNwUkuqPD6-fOCLC_WZDLas%2BsmKHE4L978uNzMg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CABu8xFDhvvijR%3DETv7TFP7cODfgAFGjGjn5iKGpNfTP_aa%3DV-Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
