First time trying to use Jasmine spies so I hope I'm just missing something obvious. What I want to do is track calls to a function that I have defined as:
window.myFunction = ->
I have a class method that calls this function. The method works fine, and I can test most aspects of it, but the following fails:
beforeEach ->
spyOn(window, 'myFunction').andCallThrough()
it 'should do that thing', ->
MyClass.makesCallToMyFunction
expect(window.myFunction).toHaveBeenCalled()
What am I doing wrong? I've seen plenty of examples on SO and many of them use the spyOn(window, 'myFunction')...expect(window.myFunction) setup/spec.
Any insight is appreciated! Thanks.
This will fail:
it 'should do that thing', ->
MyClass.makesCallToMyFunction
expect(window.myFunction).toHaveBeenCalled()
because MyClass.makesCallToMyFunction is not a method call, that's simply a reference to the makesCallToMyFunction function. If you want to call a CoffeeScript function/method without any arguments then you need to include the parentheses or CoffeeScript won't know that you want to call the function:
MyClass.makesCallToMyFunction()
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I have an assignment operation that I want to also return the new value my object is assigned, but only optionally. So of course I would add the #discardableResult attribute. However, does this actually tell the compiler to ignore the return statement inside my function definition if it is not actually being passed anywhere? What optimization does this attribute actually do? All the documentation says is that it "suppresses the warning," although I only want to use it if it can be easily optimized.
Any help is appreciated!
I am using firebase authentication and adding a listener for authentication state changes as:
var handle = auth?.addStateDidChangeListener(self.updateUI(auth:user:))
while updateUI is a function I have created with signature: (Auth, User?) -> void
I don't understand the syntax of "(auth:user:)" and was thinking perhaps I need a "," in between auth and user, but that gives me compiler error. I'd appreciate if someone can explain this to me
By writing updateUI(auth:user:), what you are referring to is the method itself, and you are not calling the method immediately. This is an explicit-member-expression as the language reference calls it. And the language reference says that one of the forms that an explicit-member-expression can take is:
As you can see from the formal grammar, inside the parentheses, there can be zero or more argument-name, and an argument-name is an identifier followed by the character :.
So why don't you need ,?
Because the language reference says so. :)
If you think about it, the : is already delimiting the different parameter labels, so you don't need an extra delimiter.
Why write out the parameter labels in the first place?
It is likely to avoid ambiguity. There's probably another overload of updateUI with different parameter labels, so just saying updateUI could be ambiguous. If there is only one updateUI, then you can just say updateUI.
There are two ways to call functions in Matlab, the command syntax and function syntax.
I am viewing a code written by someone else in which there's a statement as follows in one .m file:
params=sys_params;
while sys_params is defined as a function in another .m file as:
function params=sys_params()
params happens to be a structure.
What I wish to know is, if according to Matlab documentation, a command syntax cannot be used to output from a function, then how is the first statement working perfectly well?
Two things:
The distinction between command and function syntax comes into play when arguments are passed.
The parentheses for calling a function in MATLAB are optional when calling with no arguments. MATLAB will call the function without an invoking () unlike some other languages.
One exception to this that comes to mind is that () is required to invoke a function handle/anonymous function.
From Calling Functions:
To call a function that does not require any inputs and does not return any outputs, type only the function name
The one ambiguous thing not explicitly told there is that assigning output of such a function call is perfectly valid.
I'll note that I don't really like that () is optional as it hides function calls at-first-glance. Therefore, I try to use () as often as possible to make it clear I am invoking a function, so nearly all of my scripts start with clc();clear();.
So I'm trying to use something ancient like the 4Test language in SilkTest in a somewhat modern manner.
I have several similar tests which differ in only a part of the code. I would like to create an infrastructure function which would do the boilerplate stuff and then just call different functions for different tests. Like a callback function let's say.
So I would like to do something like that:
testcase A(Function F)
do some stuff
F()
do other stuff
Has anyone done this? How should I do it?
So I have found a solution and I'm posting it here for documentation reasons.
When a person wants to pass a function as an argument, they have to pass the name of the function as string, and then call it with the following structure
#(functionNameString)()
So the code would be like
void someFunction()
Print("Hello World!")
#("someFunction")()
This also works with methods of objects.
I'm currently experimenting with using OCaml and GTK together (using the lablgtk bindings). However, the documentation isn't the best, and while I can work out how to use most of the features, I'm stuck with changing notebook pages (switching to a different tab).
I have found the function that I need to use, but I don't know how to use it. The documentation seems to suggest that it is in a sub-module of GtkPackProps.Notebook, but I don't know how to call this.
Also, this function has a type signature different to any I have seen before.
val switch_page : ([> `notebook ], Gpointer.boxed option -> int -> unit) GtkSignal.t
I think it returns a GtkSignal.t, but I have no idea how to pass the first parameter to the function (the whole part in brackets).
Has anyone got some sample code showing how to change the notebook page, or can perhaps give me some tips on how to do this?
What you have found is not a function but the signal. The functional type you see in its type is the type of the callback that will be called when the page switch happen, but won't cause it.
by the way the type of switch_page is read as: a signal (GtkSignal.t) raised by notebook [> `notebook ], whose callbacks have type Gpointer.boxed option -> int -> unit
Generally speaking, with lablgtk, you'd better stay away of the Gtk* low level modules, and use tge G[A-Z] higher level module. Those module API look like the C Gtk one, and I always use the main Gtk doc to help myself.
In your case you want to use the GPack.notebook object and its goto_page method.
You've found a polymorphic variant; they're described in the manual in Section 4.2, and the typing rules always break my head. I believe what the signature says is that the function switch_page expects as argument a GtkSignal.t, which is an abstraction parameterized by two types:
The first type parameter,
[> `notebook]
includes as values any polymorphic variant including notebook (that's what the greater-than means).
The second type parameter is an ordinary function.
If I'm reading the documentation for GtkSignal.t correctly, it's not a function at all; it's a record with three fields:
name is a string.
classe is a polymorphic variant which could be ``notebook` or something else.
marshaller is a marshaller for the function type Gpointer.boxed option -> int -> unit.
I hope this helps. If you have more trouble, section 4.2 of the manual, on polymorphic variants, might sort you out.