Testing/Validating Factory changesets & Repeatable Schema Testing

[cdesch]

This isn't an issue, I just wanted to make sure that this code is having the effect for testing that I think it is having. I want to have a test that builds/creates the struct via the factory and check to make sure the changeset is valid, much like the default generated test. This way my factories are also tested for generating valid data.

For example, this default test which uses a map of attributes to create a struct changeset and validate the data:

  @valid_attrs %{
    email: "some@email.com",
    first_name: "some content",
    last_name: "some content",
    password: "some content",
    password_hash: "some content",
    username: "some content",
    mobile: "1112223333"}
  @invalid_attrs %{}

  test "changeset with valid attributes" do
    changeset = User.changeset(%User{}, @valid_attrs)
    assert changeset.valid?
  end

Could it be rewritten with the factory like this?

  test "changeset with ExMachina Factory attributes" do
    user = build(:user)
    changeset = User.changeset(user,%{})
    assert changeset.valid?
  end

As I'm learning Elixir, sometimes the semantics are confusing and I was hoping to get some clarification that this is the right direction to take. Is passing an empty map of attributes, because they are already defined in user by the factory build(:user) function validating the changeset correctly?

My next step would be to do something like I've done in Rails/Rspec/FactoryGirl where I have a FactorySpec which builds each of the models and validates that the model was built correctly. In this example, the factory spec builds each model and validates them.

#spec/models/factory.rb
FactoryGirl.factories.map(&:name).each do |factory_name|
  describe "The #{factory_name} factory" do
    it 'is valid' do
      build(factory_name).should be_valid
    end
  end
end

#spec/models/post_spec.rb
require 'rails_helper'
RSpec.describe Post, type: :model do
  
end

#spec/models/user_spec.rb
require 'rails_helper'
RSpec.describe User, type: :model do

end

Lastly, Is there any suggestions on how to create a spec/test in ExUnit that repeatable tests all the structs using their respective factories to validate their build/create generation?

I have an issue on stackoverflow as well for cross reference.

[cdesch]

After reading the docs, like I should have initially, I was able to create my own solution.

The ExMachina docs have a function titled params_for which generate the attributes map. This way a test can be added in addition to the one created by the Phoneix scaffold model generators.

 test "changeset with valid factory" do
   changeset = User.changeset(%User{}, params_for(:user) )
   assert changeset.valid?
 end