/** * Tests parameterized traits * * Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * * This file is part of GNU ease.js. * * ease.js is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . */ /*** XXX __construct or __mixin first? __mixin with no parameters should * permit standard trait with initialization procedure ***/ require( 'common' ).testCase( { caseSetUp: function() { this.Sut = this.require( 'Trait' ); this.Class = this.require( 'class' ); var _self = this; this.createParamTrait = function( f ) { return _self.Sut( { __mixin: ( f || function() {} ) } ); }; }, /** * Since traits are reusable components mixed into classes, they * themselves do not have a constructor. This puts the user at a * disadvantage, because she would have to create a new trait to simply * to provide some sort of configuration at the time the class is * instantiated. Adding a method to do the configuration is another * option, but that is inconvenient, especially when the state is * intended to be immutable. * * This does not suffer from the issue that Scala is having in trying to * implement a similar feature because traits cannot have non-private * properties; the linearization process disambiguates. * * When a trait contains a __mixin method, it is created as a * ParameterTraitType instead of a TraitType. Both must be recognized as * traits so that they can both be mixed in as expected; a method is * provided to assert whether or not a trait is a parameter trait * programatically, since attempting to configure a non-param trait will * throw an exception. */ 'Can create parameter traits': function() { var T = this.createParamTrait(); this.assertOk( this.Sut.isParameterTrait( T ) ); this.assertOk( this.Sut.isTrait( T ) ); }, /** * A parameter trait is in an uninitialized state---it cannot be mixed * in until arguments have been provided; same rationale as a class * constructor. */ 'Cannot mix in a parameter trait': function() { var _self = this; this.assertThrows( function() { _self.Class.use( _self.createParamTrait() )(); } ); }, /** * Invoking a parameter trait will produce an argument trait which may * be mixed in. This has the effect of appearing as though the trait is * being instantiated (but it's not). */ 'Invoking parameter trait produces argument trait': function() { var _self = this; this.assertDoesNotThrow( function() { _self.assertOk( _self.Sut.isArgumentTrait( _self.createParamTrait()() ) ); } ); }, /** * Traits cannot be instantiated; ensure that this remains true, even * with the parameterized trait implementation. */ 'Invoking a standard trait throws an exception': function() { var Sut = this.Sut; this.assertThrows( function() { // no __mixin method; not a param trait Sut( {} )(); } ); }, /** * Argument traits can be mixed in just as non-parameterized traits can; * it would be silly not to consider them to be traits through our * reflection API. */ 'Recognizes argument trait as a trait': function() { this.assertOk( this.Sut.isTrait( this.createParamTrait()() ) ); }, /** * A param trait, upon configuration, returns an immutable argument * trait; any attempt to invoke it (e.g. to try to re-configure) is in * error. */ 'Cannot re-configure argument trait': function() { var _self = this; this.assertThrows( function() { // ParameterTrait => ArgumentTrait => Error _self.createParamTrait()()(); } ); }, /** * Upon instantiating a class into which an argument trait was mixed, * all configuration arguments should be passed to the __mixin method. * Note that this means that __mixin *will not* be called at the point * that the param trait is configured. */ '__mixin is invoked upon class instantiation': function() { var called = 0; var T = this.createParamTrait( function() { called++; } ); // ensure we only invoke __mixin a single time this.Class( {} ).use( T() )(); this.assertEqual( called, 1 ); }, /** * Standard sanity check---make sure that the arguments provided during * configuration are passed as-is, by reference, to __mixin. Note that * this has the terrible consequence that, should one of the arguments * be modified by __mixin (e.g. an object field), then it will be * modified for all other __mixin calls. But that is the case with any * function. ;) */ '__mixin is passed arguments by reference': function() { var args, a = { a: 'a' }, b = { b: 'b' }; var T = this.createParamTrait( function() { args = arguments; } ); this.Class( {} ).use( T( a, b ) )(); this.assertStrictEqual( a, args[ 0 ] ); this.assertStrictEqual( b, args[ 1 ] ); }, /** * The __mixin method should be invoked within the context of the trait * and should therefore have access to its private members. Indeed, * parameterized traits would have far more limited use if __mixin did * not have access to private members, because that would be the proper * place to hold configuration data. */ '__mixin has access to trait private members': function() { var expected = {}; var T = this.Sut( { 'private _foo': null, __mixin: function( arg ) { this._foo = arg; }, getFoo: function() { return this._foo; }, } ); this.assertStrictEqual( expected, this.Class( {} ).use( T( expected ) )().getFoo() ); }, /** * It is still useful to be able to define a __mixin method to be called * as an initialization method for default state; otherwise, arbitrary * method overrides or explicit method calls are needed. */ '__mixin with empty parameter list is still invoked': function() { var expected = {}, given; var T = this.createParamTrait( function() { given = expected; } ); // notice that we still configure T, with an empty argument list this.Class( {} ).use( T() )(); this.assertStrictEqual( expected, given ); }, /** * Parameterized traits are intended to be configured. However, there * are a number of reasons to allow them to be mixed in without * configuration (that is---without being converted into argument * traits): * - Permits default behavior with no configuration, overridable with; * - If any __mixin definition required configuration, then traits * would break backwards-compatibility if they wished to define it, * with no means of maintaining BC; * - Allows trait itself to determine whether arguments are required. */ 'Mixing in param trait will invoke __mixin with no arguments': function() { var n = 0; // ensure consistency at any arity; we'll test nullary and unary, // assuming the same holds true for any n-ary __mixin method var T0 = this.createParamTrait( function() { n |= 1; } ), T1 = this.createParamTrait( function( a ) { n |= 2; } ); // ensure that param traits do not throw errors when mixed in (as // opposed to argument traits, which have been tested thusfar) var C = this.Class( {} ); this.assertDoesNotThrow( function() { C.use( T0 )(); C.use( T1 )(); } ); this.assertEqual( n, 3 ); }, /** * Sibling traits are an interesting case---rather than stacking, they * are mixed in alongside each other, meaning that there may be * multiple traits that define __mixin. Ordinarily, this is a problem; * however, __mixin shall be treated as if it were private and shall be * invoked once per trait, giving each a chance to initialize. * * Furthermore, each should retain access to their own configuration. */ 'Invokes __mixin of each sibling mixin': function() { var args = [], vals = [ {}, [] ], c = function() { args.push( arguments ) }; var Ta = this.createParamTrait( c ), Tb = this.createParamTrait( c ); this.Class( {} ).use( Ta( vals[0] ), Tb( vals[1] ) )(); this.assertEqual( args.length, 2 ); this.assertStrictEqual( args[0][0], vals[0] ); this.assertStrictEqual( args[1][0], vals[1] ); }, /** * This decision is not arbitrary. * * We shall consider two different scenarios: first, the case of mixing * in some trait T atop of some class C. Assume that C defines a * __construct method; it does not know whether or not a trait will be * mixed in, nor should it care---it should proceed initializing its * state as normal. However, what if a trait were to be mixed in, * overriding certain behaviors? It is then imperative that T be * initialized prior to any calls by C#__construct. It is not important * that C be initialized prior to T#__mixin, because T can know that it * should not invoke any methods that will fail---it should be used only * to initialize state. (In the future, ease.js may enforce this * restriction.) * * The second scenario is described in the test that follows. */ 'Invokes __mixin before __construct when C.use(T)': function() { var mixok = false; var T = this.createParamTrait( function() { mixok = true } ), C = this.Class( { __construct: function() { if ( !mixok ) throw Error( "__construct called before __mixin" ); } } ); this.assertDoesNotThrow( function() { C.use( T )(); } ); }, /** * (Continued from above test.) * * In the reverse situation---whereby C effectively extends T---we want * __construct to instead be called *after* __mixin of T (and any other * traits in the set). This is because __construct may wish to invoke * methods of T, but what would cause problems if T were not * initialized. Further, T would not have knowledge of C and, if it * expected a concrete implementation to be called from T#__mixin, then * T would have already been initialized, or C's concrete implementation * would know what not to do (in the case of a partial initialization). * * This is also more intuitive---we are invoking initialize methods as * if they were part of a stack. */ 'Invokes __construct before __mixin when Class.use(T).extend()': function() { var cok = false; var T = this.createParamTrait( function() { if ( !cok ) throw Error( "__mixin called before __construct" ); } ); var C = this.Class.use( T ).extend( { __construct: function() { cok = true } } ); this.assertDoesNotThrow( function() { C(); } ); }, /** * The same concept as above, extended to subtypes. In particular, we * need to ensure that the subtype is able to properly initialize or * alter state that __mixin of a supertype depends upon. */ 'Subtype invokes ctor before supertype __construct or __mixin': function() { var cok = false; var T = this.createParamTrait( function() { if ( !cok ) throw Error( "__mixin called before Sub#__construct" ); } ); var Sub = this.Class( {} ).use( T ).extend( { __construct: function() { cok = true } } ); this.assertDoesNotThrow( function() { Sub(); } ); }, } );