atrium's block syntax can do better but `property(...

# test

[keturn]

atrium's block syntax can do better but property(subject::x).toBe(...) is a lot of extra words.

[dave08]

You can always discuss your ideas with @robstoll, the author on #atrium , he's very friendly, open to ideas (and PRs 🙂). It's really a great library, and I think you could always define your own grammar to make this shorter.

[robstoll]

@keturn If I understand you correctly you say "atrium's block can do better" which I interpret as better than others, right? Or do you miss something?

I don't know PowerAssert for JavaScript but I guess it is expression tree based meaning you can do something like:

assert(Person("robert")) {
   name == "robert"
}

Instead of

assert(Person("robert")){
  property(subject::name).toBe("robert")
}

Right?

[robstoll]

I will most likely switch to a shorter syntax either already in 0.8.0 or in 0.9.0 which will look as follows:

assert(Person("robert")) {
   property { ::name }.toBe("robert")
}

And of course, you could add an alias for property, say p which makes it look like:

assert(Person("robert")) {
   p { ::name }.toBe("robert")
}

Or on one line

assert(Person("robert")).p { ::name }.toBe("robert")

And in case you prefer infix style:

assert(Person("robert")) p { ::name } toBe "robert"

Which comes close to the syntax of PowerAssert. If we could overload == in Kotlin I could provide something which resembles it even more.

[keturn]

⤴️ moving to #atrium