Crate macrotest

  Test harness for macro expansion.

Similar to trybuild, but allows you to write tests on how macros are expanded.

Macro expansion tests

A minimal macrotest setup looks like this:

#[test]
pub fn pass() {
    macrotest::expand("tests/expand/*.rs");
    // Alternatively,
    macrotest::expand_without_refresh("tests/expand/*.rs");
}

The test can be run with cargo test. This test will invoke the cargo expand command on each of the source files that matches the glob pattern and will compare the expansion result with the corresponding *.expanded.rs file.

If a *.expanded.rs file doesn't exists and it's not explicitly expected to (see expand_without_refresh), it will be created (this is how you update your tests).

Possible test outcomes are:

• Pass: expansion succeeded and the result is the same as in the .expanded.rs file
• Fail: expansion was different from the .expanded.rs file content
• Refresh: .expanded.rs didn't exist and has been created
• Refresh-fail: .expanded.rs is expected to be present, but not exists. See expand_without_refresh.

Workflow

First of all, the cargo expand tool must be present. You can install it via cargo:

cargo install cargo-expand

A nightly compiler is required for this tool to work, so it must be installed as well.

cargo-expand uses rustfmt to format expanded code. It's highly recommended to install it since the examples in the test-project/ and test-procmacro-project/ folders are using a formatted version of the expanded code to compare with.

Setting up a test project

In your crate that provides procedural or declarative macros, under the tests directory, create an expand directory and populate it with different expansion test cases as rust source files.

Then create a tests.rs file that will run the tests:

#[test]
pub fn pass() {
    macrotest::expand("tests/expand/*.rs");
    // Or:
    macrotest::expand_without_refresh("tests/expand/*.rs");
}

And then you can run cargo test, which will

1. Expand macros in source files that match glob pattern
2. In case if expand function is used:
   • On the first run, generate the *.expanded.rs files for each of the test cases under the expand directory
   • On subsequent runs, compare test cases' expansion result with the content of the respective *.expanded.rs files
3. In case if expand_without_refresh is used:
   • On each run, it will compare test cases' expansion result with the content of the respective *.expanded.rs files.
   • If one or more *.expanded.rs files is not found, the test will fail.

Updating .expanded.rs

This applicable only to tests that are using expand function.

Remove the *.expanded.rs files and re-run the corresponding tests. Files will be created automatically; hand-writing them is not recommended.

Functions

expand	Attempts to expand macros in files that match glob pattern.
expand_without_refresh	Attempts to expand macros in files that match glob pattern. More strict version of expand function.