如何为 ExUnit 实现 "assert_difference"

Question

我想测试函数如何更改数据库中的内容。我正在努力处理与以下 ActiveSupport::TestCase 测试用例等效的 ExUnit：

test "creates a database record" do
  post = Post.create title: "See the difference"
  assert_difference "Post.published.count" do
    post.publish!
  end
end

RSpec 版本更优雅，而且由于使用了 lambda，我认为可以移植到 Elixir/ExUnit。

it "create a database record" do
  post = Post.create title: "See the difference"
  expect { post.publish! }.to change { Post.count }.by 1
end

有没有比这更优雅（阅读：功能性）的方法：

test "creates a database record", %{conn: conn} do
  records_before = count_records
  post(conn, "/articles")
  records_after  = count_records

  assert records_before == (records_after - 1)
end

defp count_records do
  MyApp.Repo.one((from a in MyApp.Article, select: count("*"))
end

Answer 1

您可以使用宏来获得接近 TestUnit 的东西和来自 Ruby 的 RSpec 示例：

defmacro assert_difference(expr, do: block) do
  quote do
    before = unquote(expr)
    unquote(block)
    after_ = unquote(expr)
    assert before != after_
  end
end

defmacro assert_difference(expr, [with: with], do: block) do
  quote do
    before = unquote(expr)
    unquote(block)
    after_ = unquote(expr)
    assert unquote(with).(before) == after_
  end
end

test "the truth" do
  {:ok, agent} = Agent.start_link(fn -> 0 end)

  assert_difference Agent.get(agent, &(&1)) do
    Agent.update(agent, &(&1 + 1))
  end

  {:ok, agent} = Agent.start_link(fn -> 0 end)

  assert_difference Agent.get(agent, &(&1)), with: &(&1 + 2) do
    Agent.update(agent, &(&1 + 2))
  end
end

但我不会使用它，除非它被大量使用很多否则这只会让除了作者之外的每个人（可能）都更难理解代码。如果你确实使用它，你可能想将它移动到不同的模块并将其导入你的测试模块。

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