Hey, thanks. I'm aware of this approach.
I'm hoping for some technique that automatically injects, since it can be
cumbersome to inject all your dependencies by hand.
Similar to google/wire, but without the generated file sitting in the
filesystem next to your test.
Matt
On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 4:16:04 PM UTC-5 ben...@gmail.com wrote:
> func connectToDB(t *testing.T) *postgres.DB {
>> t.Helper()
>> // set up the connection, using t.Fatalf if an error occurs
>> return conn
>> }
>>
>> func UserTest(t *testing.T) {
>> db := connectToDB(t)
>> }
>>
>
> Yeah, that's a good way.
>
> And if you want to avoid re-connecting to the db every test, you can use a
> top-level test function for the "suite", and sub-tests with t.Run() for the
> individual tests, with the sub-tests closing over the db variable. Like so:
>
> func TestDatabaseThings(t *testing.T) {
> db := connectToDB(t)
>
> t.Run("Foo", func (t *testing.T) {
> fmt.Println(db, "test foo stuff") // use "db" and test stuff
> })
>
> t.Run("Bar", func (t *testing.T) {
> fmt.Println(db, "test bar stuff") // use "db" and test stuff
> })
> }
>
> -Ben
>
>
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