Oath

Names

This project was originally called "Vow", but it looks like someone snagged that on hex. So, I changed it to Oath.

Description

Oath provides a system for design by contract in elixir. It uses the excellent, :decorator library by @arjan.

Usage

You will first need to enable contracts in whichever envs you want to use them. Typically this will be development and test only.

# config/dev.exs
config :oath,
  enable_contracts: true

After enabling contracts, you can add pre and post conditions to your functions. Preconditions are always run before your function body. Postconditions are run after your function body executes and will be provided the result from your function call.

We'll use an example function with a broken implementation as a demonstration:

defmodule Mod do
  use Oath

  @decorate pre("inputs are ints", & is_integer(&1) && is_integer(&2))
  @decorate post("the result must be greater than a or b", fn a, b, result ->
    result >= a && result >= b
  end)
  def add(a, b) do
    if a == 7 do
      (a * -1) + b
    else
      a + b
    end
  end
end

Calling this function with contracts enabled will cause an exception to be raised.

Mod.add(7, 2)
 ** (Oath.ContractError) Mod.add/2 precondition: 'the result must be greater then a or b' failed with input:
  Arguments:

  a
  => 7

  b
  => 2

  result
  => -5

Installation

def deps do
  [
    {:oath, "~> 0.1.0"},
  ]
end