helpers

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LaunchDarkly Go Test Helpers

This package centralizes some test support code that is used by LaunchDarkly's Go SDK and related components, and that may be useful in other Go projects.

While this code may be useful in other projects, it is primarily geared toward LaunchDarkly's own development needs and is not meant to provide a large general-purpose framework. It is meant for unit test code and should not be used as a runtime dependency.

Contents

The main package provides general-purpose helper functions.

Subpackage httphelpers provides convenience wrappers for using net/http and net/http/httptest in test code.

Subpackage ldservices is specifically for testing LaunchDarkly SDK client components; it provides HTTP handlers that simulate the service endpoints used by the SDK.

Subpackage testbox provides the ability to write tests-of-tests within the Go testing framework.

Usage

Import any of these packages in your test code:

import (
    "github.com/launchdarkly/go-test-helpers"
    "github.com/launchdarkly/go-test-helpers/httphelpers"
    "github.com/launchdarkly/go-test-helpers/ldservices"
    "github.com/launchdarkly/go-test-helpers/testbox"
)

Breaking changes will only be made in a new major version. It is advisable to use a dependency manager to pin these dependencies to a module version or a major version branch.

Contributing

We encourage pull requests and other contributions from the community. Check out our contributing guidelines for instructions on how to contribute to this project.

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Documentation

Overview

Package helpers (github.com/launchdarkly/go-test-helpers) contains miscellaneous convenience functions for use in test code.

Index

• func BoolPtr(b bool) *bool
• func FilePathExists(path string) bool
• func Float64Ptr(n float64) *float64
• func IntPtr(n int) *int
• func StrPtr(s string) *string
• func Uint64Ptr(n uint64) *uint64
• func WithCloser(closeableObject io.Closer, action func())
• func WithTempFile(f func(string))

Functions

func BoolPtr

func BoolPtr(b bool) *bool

BoolPtr returns a pointer to a bool value. This is useful within expressions where the value is a literal.

func FilePathExists

func FilePathExists(path string) bool

FilePathExists is simply a shortcut for using os.Stat to check for a file's or directory's existence.

func Float64Ptr

func Float64Ptr(n float64) *float64

Float64Ptr returns a pointer to an float64 value. This is useful within expressions where the value is a literal.

func IntPtr

func IntPtr(n int) *int

IntPtr returns a pointer to an int value. This is useful within expressions where the value is a literal.

func StrPtr

func StrPtr(s string) *string

StrPtr returns a pointer to a string value. This is useful within expressions where the value is a literal.

func Uint64Ptr

func Uint64Ptr(n uint64) *uint64

Uint64Ptr returns a pointer to a uint64 value. This is useful within expressions where the value is a literal.

func WithCloser

func WithCloser(closeableObject io.Closer, action func())

WithCloser executes a function and ensures that the given object's Close() method is always called afterward.

This is simply a way to get more specific control over an object's lifetime than using defer. A test function may wish to ensure that an object is closed before some subsequent actions are taken, rather than at the end of the entire test.

If closing the object fails, an error is logged.

func WithTempFile

func WithTempFile(f func(string))

WithTempFile creates a temporary file, passes its name to the given function, then ensures that the file is deleted.

If for any reason it is not possible to create the file, a panic is raised since the test code cannot continue.

If deletion of the file fails (assuming it has not already been deleted) then an error is logged, but there is no panic.

helpers.WithTempFile(func(path string) {
    DoSomethingWithTempFile(path)
}) // the file is deleted at the end of this block