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Other Test Harnesses

Only tape is currently supported as a fully integrated test harness, but you can also run tests with more manual control using scenario.run. Using run allows you to manage the test yourself, only providing you with the basic help of starting and stopping a fresh Conductor instance.

The example does still use tape to show how it compares to using runTape, but it could use any test harness, like Jest or Mocha. In fact, runTape simply calls run internally.

scenario.run(runner) => null

Each invocation of scenario.run does the following:

1. Starts a fresh Conductor based on the configuration used to construct scenario
2. Injects the values needed for the test into a closure you provide

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Name runner

Type function

Description runner is a closure: (stop, runner) => { (code to run) }. - stop is a function that shuts down the Conductor and must be called in the closure body - runner is an object containing an interface into each Instance specified in the config. The Instances are keyed by “name”, as taken from the optional third parameter of Config.instance, which itself defaults to what was given in Config.agent.

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Example

This example does also use tape as an illustration, but each test harness would have its own particular way

const tape = require('tape')

// Create a scenario object in the same fashion as in other examples
const scenario = new Scenario([instanceAlice, instanceBob])

// scenario.run only manages the Conductor for us now, but we have to manage the test itself
scenario.run((stop, runner) => {
    const alice = runner.alice
    const bob = runner.bob
    tape("test something", t => {
        const result = alice.call('zome', 'function', {params: 'go here'})
        t.equal(result, 'expected value')
        // the following two steps were not necessary when using runTape:
        t.end() // end the test
        stop() // use this injected function to stop the conductor
    })
})

// This example uses destructuring to show a clean and simple way to get the Instances
scenario.run((stop, {alice, bob}) => {
    tape("test something else", t => {
        // write more tests in the same fashion
        t.equal(2 + 2, 4)
        t.end()
        stop() // but don't forget to stop the conductor when it's done!
    })
})

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