Recording ordered expectations

New in version 0.6.

Mockify provides a mechanism for recording ordered expectation, i.e. expectations that can only be resolved in their declaration order. That may be crucial if you need to provide additional level of testing for parts of code that must not call given interfaces in any order. Consider this:

class InterfaceCaller:

    def __init__(self, first, second):
        self._first = first
        self._second = second

    def run(self):
        # A lot of complex processing goes in here...
        self._first.inform()  # (1)
        # ...and some in here.
        self._second.inform()  # (2)

We have a class that depends on two interfaces: first and second. That class has a run() method in which some complex processing takes place. The result of processing is a call to both of these two interfaces, but the order does matter; calling second before first is considered a bug which should be discovered by tests. And here is our test:

from mockify.core import satisfied
from mockify.mock import Mock

def test_interface_caller():
    first = Mock('first')
    second = Mock('second')

    first.inform.expect_call()
    second.inform.expect_call()

    caller = InterfaceCaller(first, second)
    with satisfied(first, second):
        caller.run()

And of course, the test passes. But will it pass if we change the order of calls in class we are testing? Of course it will, because by default the order of declared expectations is irrelevant (for as long as return values does not come into play). And here comes ordered expectations:

from mockify.core import satisfied, ordered
from mockify.mock import MockFactory

def test_interface_caller():
    factory = MockFactory()  # (1)
    first = factory.mock('first')
    second = factory.mock('second')

    first.inform.expect_call()
    second.inform.expect_call()

    caller = InterfaceCaller(first, second)
    with satisfied(factory):
        with ordered(factory):  # (2)
            caller.run()

In the test above we’ve used mock factory (1), because ordered expectations require all checked mocks to operate on a common session. The main difference however is use of mockify.core.ordered() context manager (2) which ensures that given mocks (mocks created by factory in this case) will be called in their declaration order. And since we’ve changed the order in tested code, the test will no longer pass and mockify.exc.UnexpectedCallOrder assertion will be raised:

>>> test_interface_caller()
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
mockify.exc.UnexpectedCallOrder: Another mock is expected to be called:

at <doctest default[0]>:9
-------------------------
Called:
  second.inform()
Expected:
  first.inform()

And that exception tells us that we’ve called second.inform(), while it was expected to call first.inform() earlier.