TestKit Example¶
Ray Roestenburg’s example code from his blog adapted to work with Akka 1.1.
package unit.akka
import org.scalatest.matchers.ShouldMatchers
import org.scalatest.{WordSpec, BeforeAndAfterAll}
import akka.actor.Actor._
import akka.util.duration._
import akka.testkit.TestKit
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
import akka.actor.{ActorRef, Actor}
import util.Random
/**
* a Test to show some TestKit examples
*/
class TestKitUsageSpec extends WordSpec with BeforeAndAfterAll with ShouldMatchers with TestKit {
val echoRef = actorOf(new EchoActor).start()
val forwardRef = actorOf(new ForwardingActor(testActor)).start()
val filterRef = actorOf(new FilteringActor(testActor)).start()
val randomHead = Random.nextInt(6)
val randomTail = Random.nextInt(10)
val headList = List().padTo(randomHead, "0")
val tailList = List().padTo(randomTail, "1")
val seqRef = actorOf(new SequencingActor(testActor, headList, tailList)).start()
override protected def afterAll(): scala.Unit = {
stopTestActor
echoRef.stop()
forwardRef.stop()
filterRef.stop()
seqRef.stop()
}
"An EchoActor" should {
"Respond with the same message it receives" in {
within(100 millis) {
echoRef ! "test"
expectMsg("test")
}
}
}
"A ForwardingActor" should {
"Forward a message it receives" in {
within(100 millis) {
forwardRef ! "test"
expectMsg("test")
}
}
}
"A FilteringActor" should {
"Filter all messages, except expected messagetypes it receives" in {
var messages = List[String]()
within(100 millis) {
filterRef ! "test"
expectMsg("test")
filterRef ! 1
expectNoMsg
filterRef ! "some"
filterRef ! "more"
filterRef ! 1
filterRef ! "text"
filterRef ! 1
receiveWhile(500 millis) {
case msg: String => messages = msg :: messages
}
}
messages.length should be(3)
messages.reverse should be(List("some", "more", "text"))
}
}
"A SequencingActor" should {
"receive an interesting message at some point " in {
within(100 millis) {
seqRef ! "something"
ignoreMsg {
case msg: String => msg != "something"
}
expectMsg("something")
ignoreMsg {
case msg: String => msg == "1"
}
expectNoMsg
}
}
}
}
/**
* An Actor that echoes everything you send to it
*/
class EchoActor extends Actor {
def receive = {
case msg => {
self.reply(msg)
}
}
}
/**
* An Actor that forwards every message to a next Actor
*/
class ForwardingActor(next: ActorRef) extends Actor {
def receive = {
case msg => {
next ! msg
}
}
}
/**
* An Actor that only forwards certain messages to a next Actor
*/
class FilteringActor(next: ActorRef) extends Actor {
def receive = {
case msg: String => {
next ! msg
}
case _ => None
}
}
/**
* An actor that sends a sequence of messages with a random head list, an interesting value and a random tail list
* The idea is that you would like to test that the interesting value is received and that you cant be bothered with the rest
*/
class SequencingActor(next: ActorRef, head: List[String], tail: List[String]) extends Actor {
def receive = {
case msg => {
head map (next ! _)
next ! msg
tail map (next ! _)
}
}
}