I believe currently we pass all of the options given to configure. So you
could do:
ExUnit.configure custom_formatter: %{print_results: ...}
Would this work? Is this acceptable?
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Devon Estes <devon.c.es...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm writing a custom formatter for ExUnit and there is some configuration
> I would like the user to be able to do. However, it would be much better
> for the configuration to be able to happen by passing arguments to the
> `init/1` callback so we don't need to rely on compile time application
> config for this. Right now, since all custom formatters are just passed the
> ExUnit configuration when they're started in
> `ex_unit/lib/ex_unit/event_manager.ex`,
> and the user can't control how these custom formatters are started, I don't
> see a way to do this.
>
> My proposal is to make a small change to the ExUnit configuration for
> formatters. Instead of only allowing a list of module names representing
> the GenServer we're going to use as formatters, we can also accept a tuple
> that contains the module name of our GenServer as well as configuration for
> that formatter. For example:
>
> ExUnit.configure(formatters: [ExUnit.CLIFormatter, {CustomFormatter,
> %{print_results: false, email_results: true, api_key:
> System.get_env("API_KEY")}}])
>
> Since then these options would be passed to our CustomFormatter when it's
> started, it would be easy enough for me to pick them up by doing:
>
> def init(opts) do
> {_, my_opts} = Enum.find(opts[:formatters], {nil, %{}}, fn
> {__MODULE__, _} -> true
> _ -> false
> end)
>
> {:ok, my_opts}
> end
>
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