Or, better question, how do I get a "ContainerScope" inside a StringSpec?

# kotest

[taer]

Or, better question, how do I get a "ContainerScope" inside a StringSpec?

[sam]

Use free spec

[sam]

Which is just nested string spec

[taer]

ok.. Tried funSpec, and then just now Free. The nested contexts aren't running in either.. Tried both intellij and gradle runners

[sam]

Gradle should be fine. I use that myself. Got example code? What about the tests in kotest itself can you run those ?

[taer]

Was about to try a generic test to post.

[taer]

import io.kotest.core.datatest.forAll
import io.kotest.core.spec.style.FreeSpec
import io.kotest.matchers.shouldBe

class ATest:FreeSpec( {
    data class TestData(val number1: Int, val number2: Int, val sum: Int)
    "test" {
        "nested" - {
            forAll(
                TestData(1,2,3),
                TestData(2,2,0),
            ){
                    (a,b,c) -> a+b shouldBe  c
            }
        }
    }
})

[taer]

using

testImplementation("io.kotest:kotest-runner-junit5-jvm:4.3.1")
    testImplementation("io.kotest:kotest-assertions-core:4.3.1")

[taer]

from my debugger, it doesn't seem to be going inside the nested one. a breakpoint on the forAll never fires

[taer]

oh...

[taer]

"test" {
  "test" - {

[taer]

that's subtle.

[taer]

FunSpec does the same:

class ATest:FunSpec( {
    data class TestData(val number1: Int, val number2: Int, val sum: Int)
    test("test") {
        context("nested") {
            forAll(
                TestData(1,2,3),
                TestData(2,2,0),
            ){
                    (a,b,c) -> a+b shouldBe  c
            }
        }
    }
})

[taer]

That context isn't valid there, and gets 100% ignored

[taer]

I was using the example under FunSpec which was actually a DescribeSpec. If I just drop the test scope, it works as expectd

[sam]

You can't nest context inside test as test is a final scope.

[sam]

Maybe the DSL could be improved to fix

[sam]

class ATest: FreeSpec() {
    data class TestData(val number1: Int, val number2: Int, val sum: Int)
    "test" - {
            forAll(
                TestData(1,2,3),
                TestData(2,2,0),
            ){
                    (a,b,c) -> a+b shouldBe  c
            }
    }
})

[sam]

That should work (without testing it)

[christophsturm]

context could just throw if its inside a test

[taer]

Yeah. My only concern would be a subtle error like what I did creep in somehow, and suddenly the tests become no-ops

[taer]

It's totally working w/ the "test" - syntax

[taer]

and with the FunSpec's context("name")

[sam]

@christophsturm is right, we should throw errors at runtime for ill defined tests. I'll ticket that up.

[sam]

https://github.com/kotest/kotest/issues/1882

[taer]

Awesome. Thanks!