That helped a lot and I see it is a better/more polite 1-liner-way.
Do you recommend that these custom matchers probably need to go into a
spec helper for standard java classes and included since contains_key?
(key) maps to the java HashMap method containsKey(key)? Do I put
these in a ruby module to be included?
Thanks,
GregD (newbie)
On Sep 26, 6:37 pm, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:29 PM, GregD wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Newbie here and I'm using rspec with jruby to test a java class, but
> > this is more of a rspec question.
>
> > I have a java HashMap object and want to make sure a key exists. I
> > have this as my test:
>
> > context :toHashMap do
> > subject { @var_list.toHashMap }
>
> > it { should satisfy{|a| a.contains_key?(var1) } }
> > it { should satisfy{|a| a.contains_key?(var2) } }
> > it { should satisfy{|a| a.contains_key?(var3) } }
> > end
>
> > @var_list is set to another java object that has a method toHashMap
> > that returns
> > a HashMap. var1, var2 and var3 are set using let(:var1), etc. If the
> > one of
> > these fails, I get this telling me that I need to supply a description
> > method:
>
> > 'Java::LibraryLanguage::XmlVariableList when added duplicate variables
> > with different values toHashMap should When you call a matcher in an
> > example without a String, like this:
>
> > specify { object.should matcher }
>
> > or this:
>
> > it { should matcher }
>
> > RSpec expects the matcher to have a #description method. You should
> > either
> > add a String to the example this matcher is being used in, or give it
> > a
> > description method. Then you won't have to suffer this lengthy warning
> > again.
> > ' FAILED
> > expected {var01=2, var02=this-is-a-string} to satisfy block
> > <<<<<<<
>
> > I'd like to put 'contain the key <blah>' in place of 'When you call a
> > matcher in
> > an example without a String'
>
> > Where do I put that string? I thought I could just do:
>
> > it "should contain the key #{var1}" { should satisify{|a|
> > a.contains_key?(var1)
> > } }
>
> > But, the loading complains on that. Where can a put a custom
> > description into
> > this code (easily/polite way).
>
> Congratulations - you're apparently the first person to ever use the satisfy
> matcher with an implicit subject, and have uncovered a bug!
>
> http://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/issues/issue/20
>
> I'd recommend not using that satisfy matcher for this case though, as it's
> really intended to be more of a last resort, and you can do much better with
> a custom matcher:
>
> RSpec::Matchers.define :contain_key do |key|
> match do |subject|
> subject.contains_key?(key)
> end
> end
>
> Then you can say:
>
> context :toHashMap do
> subject { @var_list.toHashMap }
>
> it { should contain_key(var1) }
> it { should contain_key(var2) }
> it { should contain_key(var3) }
> end
>
> More info on custom
> matchers:http://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/blob/master/features/match...
>
> HTH,
> David
>
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