Question

I have a specification which essentially looks like this:

def "my example specification"(){
given:"some mocked object which depends on a object created in the where clause"
        def display = mockDisplay()

and:"a activityt"
        def activity = new ConfigActivity(display)
when:
        activity.doStuff()
then:
        1 * display.select()

where:
        dependency << new Dependency()
}


private mockDisplay() {
        def display = Mock(ConfigActivity.Display)
        display.addDependency(dependency)
        return display
}

I understand that that the “mockDisplay()” method is out of scope from the “where” clause. However since a few specifications tend to get rather cluttered with boilerplate code (not in this over simplified example offcourse) I really need some way to reuse my “given” statements and in doing so I would really like to make use of the Spock “where” clauses as well.

Is this doable? Or is there another way to go about this problem?

Answer 1

There is no magic way to access a data variable from a helper method, but you can pass it as a method parameter.