Feature Request: Support per-process mocking

jjh42 / mock

Mocking library for Elixir language

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Feature Request: Support per-process mocking #129

Open jtrees opened 3 years ago

jtrees commented 3 years ago

It would be cool if it was possible to use mock with async: true in tests. Mox supports this.

Olshansk commented 3 years ago

Interesting... I'm curious what feature(s) this library has that Mox doesn't that is still keeping you with library?

jtrees commented 3 years ago

I don't want to be forced to add behaviours just to mock something.

ffloyd commented 2 years ago

Mox requires you to add behaviors and substitute modules globally in the test scope. While it can be true from an idealistic perspective, on the practice:

it leads to dynamic resolution of modules. This is bad for dialyzer and autocompletion.
it makes code more complex, especially for simple services that are dealing with multiple remote resources.
I may want to have tests that are calling to real external API, just exclude them from CI