I am a relative newbie to testing Akka actors.
What I am trying to accomplish is: How do I unit test the following Actor
whose description I have laid out below:
*Description:*
I am trying to test an Actor class that is peering into a directory, and
inspecting the files inside of it. This action of the actor, I call it, a
"task".
The class extends an Actor with a FileActionable trait
This class field variables a follows:
1) A val "taskID"
2) An ActorRef
3) an anonmymous function that takes takes into in a parameter - a val of
type FileMetaDataInfo, and returns a
Future[MetaDataAssociatedWithActionsTakenOnFile] which is stored in a val
that I call: postActionsTakenOnFileFunction
Note: MetaDataAssociatedWithActionsTakenOnFile is a case class and
represents a few things like, when the file was last worked on, what is the
file path,
a flag to indicate something was detected in the file, no of characters in
the file, etc]
There are methods in the class as follows:
def postActionsTakenOnFile(<<a file>>, <<report>>) =
postActionsTakenOnFileFunction
def initializeActionsTakenOnFile(filesList:List[FileMetaDataInfo ) :
Option[Int] = { some code, that basically checks the List.headOption to
explicitly handle the case of an empty list, does some logic that basically
decides if the Actor how it would decide to exercise actions on the files
based on some prior load metric or something.
[Note: filesList represents a List of case class entities representing
metadata like file path, when the file was last modified, the length of the
file>>
Then of course, we have a receive method that basically goes through some
cases and has a case message to log an error reporting something it cant
handle..
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I would like to know what testcases I can possibly write and how a test
case or case code will look. I am studying up on the ScalaTest site and
also the Akka documentation on testing actors.* I would like to write
testcases using ScalaTest.*
Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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