hemant
2/23/2007 6:31:00 AM
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:57 +0900, Raymond O'connor wrote:
> I'm writing a script to connect to an external server. The problem is
> that the server can be flaky and respond with an error code on some
> requests. When the response I get is an error I would like to retry
> connecting. If I retry 10 times and fail to connect, I just abort.
>
> With mocha I can test the case where each of the 10 attempts receives an
> error code, but I can't figure out a way to stub HTTP so that it will
> return an error only 1 or 2 times, and then return a success. Anyone
> know a good way to test receiving an error a few times and then
> receiving a success?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
>
With latest version of Mocha, you can actually do something like this:
TCPSocket.stubs(:open).returns(data1,data2,data3)
where first call would return data1, second call data2 so on and so
forth. I hope, you can use this to your advantage.
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gnufied