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title: settled
description: "settled(outcome) checks how the latest handler call settled, against the HandlerOutcome a handler returns."
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# settled
[`settled(outcome)`](api:ruststream::testing::SubscriberAssertions::settled) checks how the latest handler call settled, against the [`HandlerOutcome`](api:ruststream::runtime::HandlerOutcome) a handler returns.
It takes the value a handler answers with: `ack()`, `retry()`, `drop()`, `retry_after(..)`.
It compares the settlement alone, so a hook attached with `and_after` plays no part.
For a batch it checks every element of the latest call, which is what one answer for the whole slice produces.
The record holds what the handler answered: on a transport that cannot requeue, a retry still reads as a retry, and the missing redelivery shows in `assert_called`.
A fail-fast panic leaves the delivery unsettled, which matches no outcome.
[`assert_outcome`](./assert-outcome.md) is the same check by `Outcome`, failures included, and [`outcomes`](./outcomes.md) returns every settlement in order.
## Example
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```rust reference="examples/testing_subscriber_calls.rs#settled"
```
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```rust reference="examples/manual/testing_subscriber_calls.rs#settled"
```
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