Fixes having to hit CTRL + C when doing serial tests with Socket.io

[ignacioiglesias]

I was doing some tests using Socket.io and even though everything ran okay except that I had to manually exit Expresso using ctrl + c.

I tried using process.exit inside the else block but that would cause Expresso to output Failure: Only 1 of 3 suites have been started. Using a timeout seems to fix it despite the fact that I'm using 0 as time. Not really sure how this works, but it does :)

Edit: The first answer of "Why does setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes help?" provides a good explanation.

BTW, this it my first push request, I hope it helps.

[AutomatedTester]

Hi,

When do we think this pull request will be merged, as well as a release? Currently this bug is blocking me from using expresso in a CI because it locks the worker up. See http://travis-ci.org/#!/AutomatedTester/powerball-platform/builds as an example

[michaelklishin]

Like @AutomatedTester has said, this is a pretty annoying issue for us at travis-ci.org. Some otherwise good test suites may take up to 10-30 minutes (depending on the timeout value) to be killed after they get stuck because of this bug.

[ignacioiglesias]

Hey guys, just out of curiosity which versions of Node are you using?

[tj]

it's not really a bug, it's just an event-loop gotcha. It can only be "fixed" if we specify that each test is done and then exit manually. the successor to expresso does this

[ignacioiglesias]

Is that successor the beforeExit or next argument that is provided when using --serial?

[AutomatedTester]

I am using Node 4.12 as that was the stable version up to a couple weeks
ago.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Juan Ignacio Iglesias <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Hey guys, just out of curiosity which versions of Node are you using?

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[tj]

expresso doesn't make you notify it when you're done (unfortunately) so we can't really auto-exit unless we add that and everyone updates all the tests. I'll release mocha soon when I have some time to finish it, there's an interface very similar to expresso so if anyone wants to migrate it should be pretty painless

[ignacioiglesias]

Uhm, not sure if I understood…
My thought was that I told expresso that my test had finished by calling that beforeExit or next argument; therefore, once expresso had ran out of files (in line 792) it would finish the process.

[tj]

beforeExit doesn't really help but yeah when --serial next() is enough, but not when running parallel

[ignacioiglesias]

Sorry for my late answer.

I think that the problem was having to hit CTRL + C when testing in --serial mode. Even though I was calling next() when finished, I'd still had to manually exit.

Of course that, without --serial, next() will not be available; but I thought this could be useful to fix at least part of this gotcha.

Anyway, feel free to close this :)

Thanks for your help, TJ!