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package com.sageserpent.americium.java;
import com.google.common.collect.*;
import cyclops.control.Either;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.function.Supplier;
public interface Trials extends
TrialsScaffolding> {
/**
* Start here: this yields a {@link TrialsApi} instance that is the
* gateway to creating various kinds of {@link Trials} instances via its
* factory methods.
*
* @return A stateless {@link TrialsApi} instance.
* @apiNote All the methods defined in {@link Trials} itself are either
* ways of transforming and building up more complex trials, or for
* putting them to work by running test code.
*/
static TrialsApi api() {
return com.sageserpent.americium.TrialsApis.javaApi();
}
/**
* This is an alternative to calling {@link Trials#filter(Predicate)} -
* the idea here is to embed calls to this method in the test itself as
* an enclosing guard condition prior to executing the core testing code.
* Usually the guard precondition would involve some check on the
* supplied case and possibly some other inputs that come from elsewhere.
* Like the use of filtration, this approach will interact correctly with
* the shrinkage mechanism, which is why it is provided.
*
* @param guardPrecondition A precondition that must be satisfied to run
* the test code.
* @param block The core testing code as a lambda.
*/
static void whenever(Boolean guardPrecondition, Runnable block) {
if (guardPrecondition) {
block.run();
} else {
reject();
}
}
/**
* Reject the test case that has been supplied to the currently executing
* trial; this aborts the trial, but more test cases can still be
* supplied. Like the use of filtration, this approach will interact
* correctly with the shrinkage mechanism, which is why it is provided.
*
* @apiNote This method will abort a trial's execution by throwing a
* private exception handled by the framework implementation. If it is
* called outside a trial, then it returns control as a no-operation.
*/
static void reject() {
com.sageserpent.americium.Trials.reject();
}
/**
* This is just for implementation purposes, as the Java incarnation
* {@link Trials} is effectively a wrapper around the Scala incarnation
* {@link com.sageserpent.americium.Trials}. Still, it's there if you
* want it...
*
* @return The Scala incarnation {@link com.sageserpent.americium.Trials}
* of this instance
*/
com.sageserpent.americium.Trials scalaTrials();
// Monad syntax methods...
Trials map(
final Function transform);
Trials flatMap(
final Function> step);
Trials filter(final Predicate predicate);
Trials mapFilter(
final Function> filteringTransform);
/**
* Fluent syntax to allow trials to be combined prior to calling
* {@link TrialsScaffolding#withLimit(int)} etc. This grants the user the
* choice of either supplying the combined trials in the usual way, in
* which case the {@link java.util.function.Consumer} will take a
* {@link cyclops.data.tuple.Tuple2} parameterised by types {@code Case}
* and {@code Case2}, or a {@link java.util.function.BiConsumer} can be
* used taking separate arguments of types {@link Case} and {@link Case2}.
*
* This can be repeated up to a limit by calling {@code and} on the
* results to add more trials - this enables supply to consumers of
* higher argument arity.
*
* @param secondTrials
* @param
* @return Syntax object that permits the test code to consume either a
* pair or two separate arguments.
*/
Tuple2Trials and(
Trials secondTrials);
/**
* Fluent syntax to allow trials of *dissimilar* types to be supplied as
* alternatives to the same test. In contrast to the
* {@link TrialsApi#alternate(Trials, Trials, Trials[])}, the
* alternatives do not have to conform to the same type; instead here we
* can switch in the test between unrelated types using an {@link Either}
* instance to hold cases from either this trials instance or {@code
* alternativeTrials}.
*
* @param alternativeTrials
* @param
* @return {@link Either} that is populated with either a {@code Case} or
* a {@code Case2}.
*/
Trials> or(Trials alternativeTrials);
/**
* @return A lifted trials that wraps the underlying cases from this in
* an {@link Optional}; the resulting trials also supplies a special case
* of {@link Optional#empty()}.
*/
Trials> optionals();
/**
* Transform this to a trials of collection, where {@code Collection} is
* some kind of collection that can be built from elements of type
* {@code Case} by a {@link Builder}.
*
* @param builderFactory A {@link Supplier} that should construct a
* *fresh* instance of a {@link Builder}.
* @param Any kind of collection that can take an
* arbitrary number of elements of type {@code Case}.
* @return A {@link Trials} instance that yields collections.
*/
Trials collections(
Supplier> builderFactory);
// Convenience methods that enable supply of Guava collection cases...
Trials> immutableLists();
Trials> immutableSets();
Trials> immutableSortedSets(
final Comparator elementComparator);
Trials> immutableMaps(
final Trials values);
Trials> immutableSortedMaps(
final Comparator elementComparator,
final Trials values);
/**
* Transform this to a trials of collection, where {@code Collection} is
* some kind of collection that can be built from elements of type
* {@code Case} by a {@link Builder}. The collection instances yielded
* by the result are all built from the specified number of elements.
*
* @param size The number of elements of type {@code Case} to
* build the collection instance from. Be aware
* that sets, maps and bounded size collections
* don't have to accept that many elements.
* @param builderFactory A {@link Supplier} that should construct a
* *fresh* instance of a {@link Builder}.
* @param Any kind of collection that can take an
* arbitrary number of elements of type {@code Case}.
* @return A {@link Trials} instance that yields collections.
*/
Trials collectionsOfSize(
final int size, Supplier> builderFactory);
Trials> immutableListsOfSize(
final int size);
}