How to integrate with ginkgo?

[Envek]

Hey, thanks for the xgo, it feels like a super-power.

I would like to use it within Ginkgo test suite as Ginkgo provides nice testing syntax and matchers, but I can't set up xgo with it.

For example, I want to convert following go test:

patch_test.go

package patch_test

import (
	"testing"
	"github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime/mock"
)

func greet(s string) string {
	return "hello " + s
}

func TestPatchFunc(t *testing.T) {
	mock.Patch(greet, func(s string) string {
		return "mock " + s
	})

	res := greet("world")
	if res != "mock world" {
		t.Fatalf("expect patched result to be %q, actual: %q", "mock world", res)
	}
}

Run results

$ xgo test .
ok  	patch	0.004s

to Ginkgo (after bootstrapping):

patch_suite_test.go

package patch_test

import (
	"testing"

	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
)

func TestMock(t *testing.T) {
	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
	RunSpecs(t, "Mock Suite")
}

patch_test.go

package patch_test

import (
	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
	"github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime/mock"
)

func greet(s string) string {
	return "hello " + s
}

var _ = Describe("Mocking with Xgo from Ginkgo", func() {
	It("works", func(ctx SpecContext) {
		unpatch := mock.Patch(greet, func(s string) string {
			return "mock " + s
		})
		defer unpatch()

		Expect(greet("world")).To(Equal("mock world"))
	})
})

Run results

$ xgo exec ginkgo ./... 

Running Suite: Mock Suite - /home/envek/Code/mock
=========================================================
Random Seed: 1714532009

Will run 1 of 1 specs
------------------------------
• [PANICKED] [0.000 seconds]
Mocking with Xgo from Ginkgo [It] works
/home/envek/Code/mock/mock_test.go:60

  [PANICKED] Test Panicked
  In [It] at: /home/envek/go/pkg/mod/github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime@v1.0.28/mock/mock.go:54 @ 05/01/24 11:53:30.098

  failed to setup mock for: mock_test.greet

  Full Stack Trace
    github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime/mock.getFunc({0x82d060, 0x9081a8})
    	/home/envek/go/pkg/mod/github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime@v1.0.28/mock/mock.go:54 +0xe7
    github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime/mock.Patch({0x82d060, 0x9081a8}, {0x82d060, 0x9081c0})
    	/home/envek/go/pkg/mod/github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime@v1.0.28/mock/patch.go:51 +0x2af
    mock_test.init.func1.1({0x0?, 0x0?})
    	/home/envek/Code/mock/mock_test.go:61 +0x3b
------------------------------

Summarizing 1 Failure:
  [PANICKED!] Mocking with Xgo from Ginkgo [It] works
  /home/envek/go/pkg/mod/github.com/xhd2015/xgo/runtime@v1.0.28/mock/mock.go:54

Ran 1 of 1 Specs in 0.000 seconds
FAIL! -- 0 Passed | 1 Failed | 0 Pending | 0 Skipped
--- FAIL: TestMock (0.00s)
FAIL

Ginkgo ran 1 suite in 354.453564ms

Test Suite Failed
exit status 1

But as it can be seen that when test run either via xgo test . or via xgo exec ginkgo ./..., xgo loses its under-the-hood tweaks. I suppose that ginkgo somehow re-executes tests in a new process maybe (didn't dive into ginkgo internals yet)

Is there any experience or suggestions about integrating to testing frameworks?

I also opened an issue in ginkgo repository: onsi/ginkgo#1400

[xhd2015]

Maybe xgo can pretend to be a go command.
Which means, adding a sub-command:xgo exec --as-go <cmd> [args], when invoked, will have go linked to xgo. This may help solving such problems.