Function privacy and unit testing Haskell

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

How do you deal with function visibility and unit testing in Haskell?

If you export every function in a module so that the unit tests have access to them, you risk other people calling functions that should not be in the public API.

I thought of using {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-} and then surrounding the exports with an #ifdef:

{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}

module SomeModule
#ifndef TESTING
( export1
, export2
)
#endif
where

Is there a better way?

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manpreet 2 years ago

The usual convention is to split your module into public and private parts, i.e.

module SomeModule.Internal where

-- ... exports all private methods

and then the public API

module SomeModule where (export1, export2)

import SomeModule.Internal

Then you can import SomeModule.Internal in tests and other places where its crucial to get access to the internal implementation.

The idea is that the users of your library never accidentally call the private API, but they can use it if the know what they are doing (debugging etc.). This greatly increases the usability of you library compared to forcibly hiding the private API.


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