Release RunTestInLooperThread as a separate artifact

[Zhuinden]

Goal

What do you want to achieve?

Verify RealmResults containing expected data in automated integration tests

Expected Results

This should be easy

Actual Results

You need to copy out a bunch of Realm internal stuff! 😄

It'd be nice if Realm either ran in JVM without Android (but that won't happen anytime soon, ofc)

or could provide a plug-and-play "testing" helper with which you can verify Realm notification after transactions and query results.

Version of Realm and tooling

Realm version(s): 4.3.1

Realm sync feature enabled: no

[cmelchior]

Can you elaborate a bit more on the use case? JVM aside (which would be nice for speed reasons), then I would assume you could just do normal JUnit asserts?

[Zhuinden]

I mean using https://github.com/realm/realm-java/blob/master/realm/realm-library/src/androidTest/java/io/realm/RealmResultsTests.java#L61-L66 from an ptional component.

[cmelchior]

Ah, like that. Yeah, we have considered doing that actually, but it has rather low priority, unfortunately.

But yes, callback testing in unit tests is rather annoying. I'm actually a bit surprised that no-one has created a generalized library for that yet. We cannot be the only one with that requirement.