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Access to TestScope.backgroundScope

See original GitHub issue

Coroutines 1.6.4 introduces TestScope.backgroundScope.

Unfortunately, kotest only takes coroutineContext from TestScope, it does not expose TestScope anywhere, making new backgroundScope inaccessible.

Could this be exposed somewhere?

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Created a year ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

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matejdrocommented, Oct 9, 2022

Ideal thing from the user’s perspective would be kotest’s TestScope extending coroutines’s TestScope. That way user gets all top-level extensions (such as runCurrent and advanceTime) and direct access to all current and future TestScope features (such as backgroundScope) automatically and since it would be the receiver, using them would be very ergonomical.

But I understand that actually implementing that would be messy, especially since coroutineTestScope can be turned off. Maybe it would be implemented even when coroutineTestScope is disabled, but all its methods would throw exception that they are not supported when disabled?

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sksamuelcommented, Dec 5, 2022

Yeah I saw that in your PR after I typed that comment out.

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