chongiscool / turbine

A small testing library for kotlinx.coroutines Flow

Turbine

Turbine is a small testing library for kotlinx.coroutines Flow.

flowOf("one", "two").test {
  assertEquals("one", awaitItem())
  assertEquals("two", awaitItem())
  awaitComplete()
}

A turbine is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.

– Wikipedia

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repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
  testImplementation 'app.cash.turbine:turbine:0.8.0'
}

Snapshots of the development version are available in Sonatype's snapshots repository.

repositories {
  maven {
    url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/'
  }
}
dependencies {
  testImplementation 'app.cash.turbine:turbine:0.9.0-SNAPSHOT'
}

Usage

The entrypoint for the library is the test extension for Flow<T> which accepts a validation block. Like collect, test is a suspending function that will not return until the flow is complete or canceled.

someFlow.test {
  // Validation code here!
}

Consuming Events

Inside the test block you must consume all received events from the flow. Failing to consume all events will fail your test.

flowOf("one", "two").test {
  assertEquals("one", awaitItem())
}

Exception in thread "main" AssertionError:
  Unconsumed events found:
   - Item(two)
   - Complete

As the exception indicates, consuming the "two" item is not enough. The complete event must also be consumed.

flowOf("one", "two").test {
  assertEquals("one", awaitItem())
  assertEquals("two", awaitItem())
  awaitComplete()
}

Received events can be explicitly ignored, however.

flowOf("one", "two").test {
  assertEquals("one", awaitItem())
  cancelAndIgnoreRemainingEvents()
}

Additionally, we can receive the most recent emitted item and ignore the previous ones.

flowOf("one", "two", "three")
  .map {
    delay(100)
    it
  }
  .test {
    // 0 - 100ms -> no emission yet
    // 100ms - 200ms -> "one" is emitted
    // 200ms - 300ms -> "two" is emitted
    // 300ms - 400ms -> "three" is emitted
    delay(250)
    assertEquals("two", expectMostRecentItem())
    cancelAndIgnoreRemainingEvents()
  }

Consuming Errors

Unlike collect, a flow which causes an exception will still be exposed as an event that you must consume.

flow { throw RuntimeException("broken!") }.test {
  assertEquals("broken!", awaitError().message)
}

Failure to consume an error will result in the same unconsumed event exception as above, but with the exception added as the cause so that the full stacktrace is available.

flow { throw RuntimeException("broken!") }.test { }

java.lang.AssertionError: Unconsumed events found:
 - Error(RuntimeException)
    at app.cash.turbine.ChannelBasedFlowTurbine.ensureAllEventsConsumed(FlowTurbine.kt:240)
    ... 53 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: broken!
    at example.MainKt$main$1.invokeSuspend(Main.kt:7)
    ... 32 more

Asynchronous Flows

Calls to awaitItem(), awaitComplete(), and awaitError() are suspending and will wait for events from asynchronous flows.

channelFlow {
  withContext(IO) {
    Thread.sleep(100)
    send("item")
  }
}.test {
  assertEquals("item", awaitItem())
  awaitComplete()
}

Asynchronous flows can be canceled at any time so long as you have consumed all emitted events. Allowing the test lambda to complete will implicitly cancel the flow.

channelFlow {
  withContext(IO) {
    repeat(10) {
      Thread.sleep(200)
      send("item $it")
    }
  }
}.test {
  assertEquals("item 0", awaitItem())
  assertEquals("item 1", awaitItem())
  assertEquals("item 2", awaitItem())
}

Flows can also be explicitly canceled at any point.

channelFlow {
  withContext(IO) {
    repeat(10) {
      Thread.sleep(200)
      send("item $it")
    }
  }
}.test {
  Thread.sleep(700)
  cancel()

  assertEquals("item 0", awaitItem())
  assertEquals("item 1", awaitItem())
  assertEquals("item 2", awaitItem())
}

Hot Flows

Emissions to hot flows that don't have active consumers are dropped. Call test on a flow before emitting or the item will be missed.

val mutableSharedFlow = MutableSharedFlow<Int>(replay = 0)
mutableSharedFlow.emit(1)
mutableSharedFlow.test {
  assertEquals(awaitItem(), 1)
  cancelAndConsumeRemainingEvents()
}

kotlinx.coroutines.test.UncompletedCoroutinesError: After waiting for 60000 ms, the test coroutine is not completing, there were active child jobs: [ScopeCoroutine{Completing}@478db956]
	at app//kotlinx.coroutines.test.TestBuildersKt__TestBuildersKt$runTestCoroutine$3$3.invokeSuspend(TestBuilders.kt:304)
	at ???(Coroutine boundary.?(?)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.test.TestBuildersKt__TestBuildersKt.runTestCoroutine(TestBuilders.kt:288)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.test.TestBuildersKt__TestBuildersKt$runTest$1$1.invokeSuspend(TestBuilders.kt:167)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.test.TestBuildersJvmKt$createTestResult$1.invokeSuspend(TestBuildersJvm.kt:13)

Proper usage of Turbine with hot flows looks like the following.

val mutableSharedFlow = MutableSharedFlow<Int>(replay = 0)
mutableSharedFlow.test {
  mutableSharedFlow.emit(1)
  assertEquals(awaitItem(), 1)
  cancelAndConsumeRemainingEvents()
}

The hot flow types Kotlin currently provides are:

• MutableStateFlow
• StateFlow
• MutableSharedFlow
• SharedFlow
• Channels converted to flow with Channel.consumeAsFlow

Multiple turbines

Multiple flows can be tested at once using the testIn function which returns the turbine test object which would otherwise be used as a lambda receiver in the test function.

runTest {
  val turbine1 = flowOf(1).testIn(this)
  val turbine2 = flowOf(2).testIn(this)
  assertEquals(1, turbine1.awaitItem())
  assertEquals(2, turbine2.awaitItem())
  turbine1.awaitComplete()
  turbine2.awaitComplete()
}

Unconsumed events will throw an exception when the scope ends.

runTest {
  val turbine1 = flowOf(1).testIn(this)
  val turbine2 = flowOf(2).testIn(this)
  assertEquals(1, turbine1.awaitItem())
  assertEquals(2, turbine2.awaitItem())
  turbine1.awaitComplete()
  // turbine2.awaitComplete()   <-- NEWLY COMMENTED OUT
}

kotlinx.coroutines.CompletionHandlerException: Exception in completion handler InvokeOnCompletion@6d167f58[job@3403e2ac] for TestScope[test started]
	at app//kotlinx.coroutines.JobSupport.completeStateFinalization(JobSupport.kt:320)
	at app//kotlinx.coroutines.JobSupport.tryFinalizeSimpleState(JobSupport.kt:295)
	... 70 more
Caused by: app.cash.turbine.AssertionError: Unconsumed events found:
 - Complete
	at app//app.cash.turbine.ChannelBasedFlowTurbine.ensureAllEventsConsumed(FlowTurbine.kt:333)
	at app//app.cash.turbine.FlowTurbineKt$testIn$1.invoke(FlowTurbine.kt:115)
	at app//app.cash.turbine.FlowTurbineKt$testIn$1.invoke(FlowTurbine.kt:112)
	at app//kotlinx.coroutines.InvokeOnCompletion.invoke(JobSupport.kt:1391)
	at app//kotlinx.coroutines.JobSupport.completeStateFinalization(JobSupport.kt:318)
	... 72 more

Unlike the test lambda, flows are not automatically canceled. Long-running asynchronous or infinite flows must be explicitly canceled.

runTest {
  val state = MutableStateFlow(1)
  val turbine = state.testIn(this)
  assertEquals(1, turbine.awaitItem())
  state.emit(2)
  assertEquals(2, turbine.awaitItem())
  turbine.cancel()
}

License

Copyright 2018 Square, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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