cabal-doctest: A Setup.hs helper for doctests running

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Currently (beginning of 2017), there isn't cabal doctest command. Yet, to properly work doctest needs plenty of configuration. This library provides the common bits for writing custom Setup.hs See Cabal/2327 for the progress of cabal doctest, i.e. whether this library is obsolete.


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Versions 1, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9
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Dependencies base (>=4.3 && <4.14), Cabal (>=1.10 && <3.1), directory, filepath [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (c) 2017 Oleg Grenrus
Author Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus@iki.fi>
Maintainer Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus@iki.fi>
Category Distribution
Home page https://github.com/phadej/cabal-doctest
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/phadej/cabal-doctest
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cabal-doctest

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A Setup.hs helper for running doctests.

Simple example

For most use cases—a .cabal file with a single library containing doctests—adapting the simple example located here will be sufficient. (Note that this example requires Cabal-1.24 or later, but you can relax this bound safely, although running doctests won't be supported on versions of Cabal older than 1.24.)

To use this library in your Setup.hs, you should specify a custom-setup section in your .cabal file. For example:

custom-setup
 setup-depends:
   base >= 4 && <5,
   Cabal,
   cabal-doctest >= 1 && <1.1

/Note:/ Cabal dependency is needed because of Cabal/GH-4288 bug.

You'll also need to specify build-type: Custom at the top of the .cabal file. Now put this into your Setup.hs file:

module Main where

import Distribution.Extra.Doctest (defaultMainWithDoctests)

main :: IO ()
main = defaultMainWithDoctests "doctests"

When you build your project, this Setup will generate a Build_doctests module. To use it in a testsuite, simply do this:

module Main where

import Build_doctests (flags, pkgs, module_sources)
import Data.Foldable (traverse_)
import Test.DocTest (doctest)

main :: IO ()
main = do
    traverse_ putStrLn args -- optionally print arguments
    doctest args
  where
    args = flags ++ pkgs ++ module_sources

Example with multiple .cabal components

cabal-doctest also supports more exotic use cases where a .cabal file contains more components with doctests than just the main library, including:

Unlike the simple example shown above, these examples involve named components. You don't need to change the Setup.hs script to support this use case. However, in this scenario Build_doctests will generate extra copies of the flags, pkgs, and module_sources values for each additional named component.

Simplest approach is to use x-doctest-components field, for example

x-doctest-components: lib lib:internal exe:example

In that case, the testdrive is general:

module Main where

import Build_doctests (Component (..), components)
import Data.Foldable (for_)
import Test.DocTest (doctest)

main :: IO ()
main = for_ components $ \(Component name flags pkgs sources) -> do
    print name
    putStrLn "----------------------------------------"
    let args = flags ++ pkgs ++ sources
    for_ args putStrLn
    doctest args

There's also a more explicit approach: if you have an executable named foo, then separate values named flags_exe_foo, pkgs_exe_foo, and module_sources_exe_foo will be generated in Build_doctests. If the name has hyphens in it (e.g., my-exe), then cabal-doctest will convert those hyphens to underscores (e.g., you'd get flags_my_exe, pkgs_my_exe, and module_sources_my_exe). Internal library bar values will have a _lib_bar suffix.

An example testsuite driver for this use case might look like this:

module Main where

import Build_doctests
       (flags,            pkgs,            module_sources,
        flags_exe_my_exe, pkgs_exe_my_exe, module_sources_exe_my_exe)
import Data.Foldable (traverse_)
import Test.DocTest

main :: IO ()
main = do
    -- doctests for library
    traverse_ putStrLn libArgs
    doctest libArgs

    -- doctests for executable
    traverse_ putStrLn exeArgs
    doctest exeArgs
  where
    libArgs = flags            ++ pkgs            ++ module_sources
    exeArgs = flags_exe_my_exe ++ pkgs_exe_my_exe ++ module_sources_exe_my_exe

See this example for more details.

Additional configuration

The cabal-doctest based Setup.hs supports few extensions fields in pkg.cabal files to customise the doctest runner behaviour, without customising the default doctest.hs.

test-suite doctests:
  if impl(ghc >= 8.0)
    x-doctest-options: -fdiagnostics-color=never
  x-doctest-source-dirs: test
  x-doctest-modules: Servant.Utils.LinksSpec

  ...

Notes

    Variable not in scope:
      mkName
        :: [Char]
           -> template-haskell-2.11.1.0:Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.Name

or

    Variable not in scope:
      polyQuickCheck
        :: Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.Name -> Language.Haskell.TH.Lib.ExpQ

Copyright 2017 Oleg Grenrus.

Available under the BSD 3-clause license.