test/org/waveprotocol/wave/model/testing/GenericTestBase.java

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package org.waveprotocol.wave.model.testing;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * Generic base implementation for a test case that tests the behaviour of a
 * single type.  This implementation holds a reference to a factory for
 * creating instances of that interface, and uses that factory to instantiates
 * the instance to test in {@link #setUp()}.
 *
 * @param <T> interface type being tested
 */
public abstract class GenericTestBase<T> extends TestCase {
  /** Factory used to create each wave to be tested. */
  protected final Factory<? extends T> factory;

  // State initialized in setUp()

  /** Target to test. */
  protected T target;

  /**
   * Creates this test case, which runs on the wave-datas created by a factory.
   *
   * @param factory  factory for creating the wave-datas to test
   */
  protected GenericTestBase(Factory<? extends T> factory) {
    this.factory = factory;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * This implementation uses the test's factory to creates a test target.
   */
  @Override
  protected void setUp() {
    target = factory.create();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  @Override
  protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
    // This is only overridden to expose tearDown to GWTTestBase (which should
    // be in GWTTestBase's scope anyway, since it extends TestCase, but for
    // some reason it isn't).
    super.tearDown();
  }
}