About

Package nktest provides a Nakama test runner that makes it easy to build and test Nakama module plugins with complex or advanced game logic using nothing but go test.

See also github.com/ascii8/nakama-go package for a web/realtime Nakama Go client.

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Overview

This package uses Podman to create "rootless" containers (specifically, docker.io/heroiclabs/nakama-pluginbuilder and docker.io/heroiclabs/nakama) to build Nakama's Go plugins and launch the necessary server components (PostgreSQL and Nakama).

Provides a stable, repeatable, and quick mechanism for launching testable end-to-end Nakama servers for game modules (Go, Lua, or Javascript).

Provides additional transport and logger types for use with Go clients to readily aid in debugging Nakama's API calls.

Quickstart

Add to package/module:

go get github.com/ascii8/nktest

From Go's TestMain, use nktest.Main to build Go modules, and to setup/teardown PostgreSQL and Nakama server containers:

import "github.com/ascii8/nktest"

// TestMain handles setting up and tearing down the postgres and nakama
// containers.
func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
	ctx := context.Background()
	ctx = nktest.WithAlwaysPullFromEnv(ctx, "PULL")
	ctx = nktest.WithHostPortMap(ctx)
	nktest.Main(ctx, m,
		nktest.WithDir("./testdata"),
		nktest.WithBuildConfig("./nksample", nktest.WithDefaultGoEnv(), nktest.WithDefaultGoVolumes()),
	)
}

Then, from within a Test* func, create a cancelable test context, and a proxy:

import "github.com/ascii8/nktest"

func TestNakamaHealthcheck(t *testing.T) {
	ctx, cancel, nk := nktest.WithCancel(context.Background(), t)
	defer cancel()
	urlstr, err := nktest.RunProxy(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("expected no error, got: %v", err)
	}
	t.Logf("proxy: %s", urlstr)
	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "GET", urlstr+"/healthcheck", nil)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("expected no error, got: %v", err)
	}
	// create a client with compression disabled (makes debugging the API
	// requests/responses easier)
	cl := &http.Client{
		Transport: &http.Transport{
			DisableCompression: true,
		},
	}
	// execute the request
	res, err := cl.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("expected no error, got: %v", err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	// check response
	if res.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
		t.Errorf("expected %d, got: %d", http.StatusOK, res.StatusCode)
	}
	t.Logf("healthcheck status: %d", res.StatusCode)
	// display connection information
	t.Logf("grpc: %s", nk.GrpcLocal())
	t.Logf("http: %s", nk.HttpLocal())
	t.Logf("console: %s", nk.ConsoleLocal())
	t.Logf("http_key: %s", nk.HttpKey())
	t.Logf("server_key: %s", nk.ServerKey())
}

Use the WithHostPortMap() option, to publish the Postgres and Nakama server's default ports on the host, and making it easy to write Example* tests.

For more advanced testing scenarios, see the github.com/ascii8/nakama-go package for a full featured Go Nakama client.

Examples

• Testing (nakama-go package) - github.com/ascii8/nakama-go/example_test.go
• Testing (this package) - nktest_test.go
• CI/CD example (GitHub Actions, this repository) - test.yml
• Go client for Nakama (usable with GOOS=js GOOS=wasm) - github.com/ascii8/nakama-go
• Pure Go implementation of Nakama's XOXO example - github.com/ascii8/xoxo-go

See the Go package documentation for package level examples.

Why

While Nakama provides a number of different languages with which to build out game modules, building large-scale, complex logic for Nakama is best done using Go. For experienced (and even inexperienced!) Go developers, the go test command is simple, efficient and well understood, and works across platforms.

And, for fully automated deployments of Nakama and game modules, a large amount of quick and reliable testing is needed to ensure rapid application development, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD).

As such, there was clear motivation to make it easy and repeatable to test entirely from go test,

Why Podman

The first version of nktest used Docker, but builds and tests were slow as it was not possible to mount the user's Go build/mod cache directories without stomping on the local UID/GID and subsequently affecting the read/write permissions. Thus the change to Podman, which is able to run containers without root permissions, and can keep user UID/GID's on files.

Notes

macOS:

# update homebrew formulas and upgrade packages
brew update && brew upgrade

# install podman
brew install podman

# install gpgme (needed for podman's Go binding dependenices)
brew install gpgme

# if unable to do `go test -v` out of the box, re-init the podman machine
podman machine stop podman-machine-default
podman machine rm podman-machine-default
podman machine init -v $HOME:$HOME
podman machine start

# if receiving a "too many open files" error on M1 macs, try:
podman machine stop && ulimit -n unlimited && podman machine start