Anyone have an opinion on gomock

[Fraser Scott]

I've started writing tests for the controllers, but most of the code requires reading/writing to the filesystem etc. 

Does anyone have any experience or opinions on using gomock? Is it helpful or unnecessary for mocking filesystem logic? The alternative would be to actually test using the real filesystem, like we're doing for the admin integration tests.

Cheers

[Jon Bonazza]

I prefer the testify package. It has a mocking suite. I dont have first hand experience with gomock though.

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[Fraser Scott]

On Friday, 5 February 2016 01:25:57 UTC, Jon Bonazza wrote:

I prefer the testify package. It has a mocking suite. I dont have first hand experience with gomock though.

Fair enough. Thinking about it, any mocking would need to be able to persist information throughout a test because our heavy use of the file system. So a test might need to create a config file first (using a previously tested function), then test the actual processing of the config file in some way. 

[Fraser Scott]

This looks promising: https://github.com/blang/vfs

[Jon Bonazza]

Ideally,  the code would be laid out in a way that promotes easy mocking of input (from file for example) using interfaces (for instance, pass around io.Reader interfaces instead of file paths), but for times when this just isn't practical, creating dummy files in the TMPDIR before a test is common.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016, 1:19 AM Fraser Scott <fraser...@gmail.com> wrote:

This looks promising: https://github.com/blang/vfs

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