My thought is that this is a good use-case and you should look into proposing how a class should indicate asynchronous setup and teardown and then go ahead and implement. Then submit as a proposal :-)
One idea is that we could add a variable called ready to the TestCase that is by default true. We would then adjust the runMiddle() method to check the ready variable and if it is true go ahead and call runTestOrAsync. If it is false it simply would wait and call itself again a little later. Then in your setup you set ready to false, and when your data loads you set ready to true. I haven't thought it all the way through, but something like this could work. Check the source out and maybe override some of those methods in your own testcase to see how it works out. Matt -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bringrags Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 2:02 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Asynchronous TestCase.setUp in FlexUnit Hi, I've been using FlexUnit with one of my projects and ran into a problem. In one of my test cases, I want to load a bunch of data from an XML file in the TestCase.setUp() method, and have all of the individual tests use this as a fixture. The problem is that loading a file is an asynchronous operation, but there's no mechanism to make setUp asynchronous. Consider the following excerpt: public function setUp():void { var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onComplete); loader.load(new URLRequest("myfile.xml")); } private function onComplete(event:Event):void { var loader:URLLoader = URLLoader(event.target); myXML = new XML(loader.data); } public function testSomething():void { assertTrue("Should pass", myXML.someElement = "some value"); } The problem is that testSomething() gets called before onComplete(). Ideally I would like to prevent the tests from running until the onComplete() method is called. FlexUnit provides support for having a chain of asynchronous tests, but it doesn't seem to provide support for chaining asynchronous setup tasks. One possible workaround is to have each test method explicitly prepare the setup fixture: public function testSomething():void { beginTestSetup(testSomethingHandler); } private function testSomethingHandler(event:Event):void { endTestSetup(event); assertTrue("Should pass", xml.someElement = "some value"); } private function beginTestSetup(eventHandler:Function):void { var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,addAsync(eventHandler,1000)); loader.load(new URLRequest("myfile.xml")); } private function endTestSetup(event:Event):void { var loader:URLLoader = URLLoader(event.target); myXML = new XML(loader.data); } But this is less than ideal. Any thoughts? -- Brian -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
