I saw a kotest presentation today. The small thing...

# kotest

[Eugen Martynov]

I saw a kotest presentation today. The small thingy that looks like could be improvement to use function factory instead of constructor for Spec that would allow making code like Spec({.. to Spec { . Or it was proposed/discussed already? (I didn't find such in the GH issues).

[Emil Kantis]

I think the closest we could get would be something like

class SomeSpec : Spec by stringSpec {

}

But I think it would require quite some changes

[Eugen Martynov]

I was thinking about

abstract class Spec(lamda: Extension.()->Unit) : ....

to

class Spec(...

public fun Spec(lamda: Extension.()->Unit)) = Spec(lamda)

[Eugen Martynov]

Ah, no

[Eugen Martynov]

That will translate to something fun SomeSpec = Spec {... or val MySpec = Spec {...

[Emil Kantis]

yeah 🙂

[Emil Kantis]

or to object SomeSpec : Spec by Spec { }

[Emil Kantis]

but it requires us to change all specs to interfaces

[Eugen Martynov]

That I can not translate if you are for or against it 🙂

[Emil Kantis]

I'm undecided 😁 just stating that it would probably be a big change

[Eugen Martynov]

Thanks! Does kotest have something like KEEPs?

[Emil Kantis]

Nothing formal, but you could of course take inspiration from the KEEP format and raise an issue

[Eugen Martynov]

Yeah, I see discussion https://github.com/kotest/kotest/discussions