Tests: assert!() inside a thread

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Hey,
I want to test that a server on a separate thread received a message correctly.
Therefore I tried to put an assert!() into the closure I hand to the server:

thread::spawn(move||{
let mut server = NotificationServer::new();
    server.start( |notification|{
        assert!(notification.actions[0] == "action1");
    })
});

The assertion causes the thread to panic, but the test does not count as failed.

running 1 test
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'index out of bounds: the len is 4 but the index is 4', ../src/libcollections/vec.rs:1041
test actions_vec ... ok

What do I have to do to make the test recognize the panicked thread?

2

You can try to join the thread. It should return Err(...) if the thread panics.

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3

Thank you, that did it. I hadn't used thread extensively before.
Do you know of a way to force tests to run single threaded without adding -j1 to cargo test, perhaps by adding something to Cargo.toml. My tests start a server each and therefore must not be run in parallel :smiley:

4

Not off the top of my head. I seem to remember someone asking something about it here or on Reddit, but I didn't stay around for the answer. They had problems with initializing some global value, or something like that...

5

Thank you anyway. :slight_smile:

6

Maybe you could grab a global testing mutex to effectively serialize them.

7

You can use the RUST_TEST_THREADS environment variable to control the number of parallel tests.

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