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Added by frochambeau, last edited by Laurent Cobos on Jul 16, 2007 (view change)

Complete list of the Collection Interpreters

Rules for all the collection interpreters

The following rules applies to all the collection interpreters (list of, set of...)

Retrieving the collection of value from the fixture

A collection interpreters needs a collection of values from the fixture. The interpreters can access these values by different means.

To retrieve these values the interpreter follow the following rules.

1 A method in the class can be annotated or have the attribute CollectionProvider
2 The fixture itself can be an Array or an implementation of a Collection/ICollection
3 The fixture can have a query/Query method

The CollectionProvider annotation/attributes

ex: .JAVA

   import com.greenpepper.reflect.CollectionProvider;

   @CollectionProvider()
   public Collection employees() 
   {
        return employees;
   }

ex: .NET

   using GreenPepper.Reflect;

   [CollectionProvider]
   public ICollection Employees() 
   {
        return employees;
   }

The fixture is a collection

If the fixture itself is a collection or an array then it will be directly by the interpreter.

The query method

public Collection query(); for java

ICollection Query(); in .Net

Rules of resolution

1 First, verifying if there is a CollectionProvider annotation or attribute on the fixture class.
2 If not, verify if the fixture itself is an Array or an implementation of a Collection/ICollection
3 Third, look for a query/Query method
4 throws an exception

rule for	Collection Resolution
fixture	query values ?
Fixture with a collection provider annotation	collection
Fixture that implements collection	collection
Fixture with a query method	collection
Fixture without collection	error

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