how to call a method or closure in a where clause in a spock test

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I'm working with Spock tests atm and I wonder if anything like this is even possbile. My approaches don't work and I wonder if anyone of you had similiar intentions and found a way. I want to call a method or a closure which must only be called for each respective where-clause in order to setup some things. I can not just call all of these methods as it would ruin my test. The only way I found so far is to check what the current state is and call the method accordingly in an if statement like: if(state==SomeStateEnum.FIRST_STATE){somePrivateMethodFromSpec()} but I wonder if it couldn't be done in a better way. I hope my intentions are clear (sorry, I'm no native speaker) Below is some example code which may be a bit better to understand of what I want to do. Thank you in advance. ``` def 'is this even possible?'() { when: def resultState = service.someServiceMethod(param) then: resultState == state where: state | param | method SomeStateEnum.FIRST_STATE | 'param1' | somePrivateMethodF…

Accepted Answer

Not sure if this is exactly what you need but you can try it:

```
class MyFirstSpec extends Specification {
  def "let's try this!"() {
    expect:
      "${method}"() == method
    where:
      method << ["method1", "method2"]
  }

private String method1(){
     return "method1"
  }

private String method2(){
     return "method2"
  }
}
```

​

how to call a method or closure in a where clause in a spock test

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