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87 lines
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<!doctype html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<title>Doctests</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="../lib/3rdparty/highlight/styles/default.css">
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/doctest.css">
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<script src="../lib/3rdparty/highlight/highlight.pack.js"></script>
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<script src="../lib/3rdparty/all.js"></script>
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<script src="all.js"></script>
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</head>
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<body onload="Doctest.run()">
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<main>
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<h1>
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Doctests
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</h1>
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<p>
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Doctests are explanatory descriptions of programs with executable code examples.
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Their main purpose is to explicate requirements, assumptions,
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and relationships between components that are difficult to understand from
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traditional API documentation. At the same time they provide tests of core
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functionality.
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</p>
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<p>Doctests are written as HTML5+JavaScript pages with embedded script tags
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marked by a <code>"doctest"</code> css class:
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<pre><code><script class="doctest"></code></pre>
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These scripts are evaluated and thereby tested when the page loads. See the
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source of this page for examples.
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Typically doctests are started by a
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<pre><code><body onload="Doctest.run()"></code></pre>
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call. This method loops over all script elements with a <code>"doctest"</code>
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css class and replaces these scripts with <code><pre></code> tags that
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(unlike<code><script></code> tags) are visible to the user.
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</p>
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<p>Let's look at an example of a simple program that uses a composite design
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pattern. A node with a query component that can be reused in other classes:</p>
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<script class="doctest">
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class Query {
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constructor(node) {
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this.node = node
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}
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search(text) {
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// Typically this would be part of an async callback mechanim.
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// Here we simulate this async call. The main assumption is that the
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// Node class has a related callback method.
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this.node.queryResult("Result for: " + text)
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}
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}
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class Node {
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constructor(name) {
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this.name = name
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this.query = new Query(this)
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}
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queryResult(result) {
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this.result = result
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}
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}
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</script>
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<p>We can now check whether the basic setup of our composite pattern works:</p>
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<script class="doctest">
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let node = new Node("Test")
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node.query.search("What about...")
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Doctest.expect(node.result, "Result for: What about...")
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Doctest.expect(null, null)
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</script>
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<p>Looking at the source of this doctest you will see that the test is done
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by the static <pre><code>Doctest.expect(expr, result)</code></pre> method. This
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method throws an error which can be used standard browser development tools to
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locate and trace the cause of the error.</p>
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<h2>
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References
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</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://highlightjs.readthedocs.io">Code Highlighting with highlight.js</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/davidchambers/doctest">David Chamber's JavaScript Doctest</a></li>
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</ul>
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</main>
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</body>
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