How to write a Wait or Ensure that "or"s several expectations together?

[perrygoy]

I have a search bar that will either display search results or a "results not found" message. I'm trying to write a task which will commit a search and wait for one of those two things to happen.

How can i write a Wait or Ensure that will allow me to say "either at least one search result appears or the 'results not found' message appears"? I saw the documentation where one "actual" is compared against several expectations with and, but that's not quite what i want. Something like:

theActor.attemptsTo(
    Ensure.thatAtLeastOneOf(
        (Search.searchResult(), isPresent()),
        (Search.noResultsMessage(), isPresent()),
    )
)

[jan-molak]

It seems like you can either get a results not found message, or a search result, but never both simultaneously. If so, I'd suggest using a conditional statement to Check if the results are present, and if they're not - look for the results not found message.

Something along those lines:

import { Check } from '@serenty-js/core'
import { Ensure. isPresent } from '@serenity-js/assertions'
import { Text } from '@serenity-js/web'

const VerifySearchResults = () => 
  Task.where(`#actor verifies search results`,
    Check.whether(Search.noResultsMessage(), isPresent())
      .andIfSo(
        Ensure.that(Text.of(Search.noResultsMessage()), equals('results not found'))
      )
      .otherwise(
        Ensure.that(Search.searchResult(), isPresent()),
      )
  )

Hope this helps!

[perrygoy]

This will work, but it will be a little flakey, because i'll need to wait for the "search in progress" loading animation to appear and disappear. In my experience with these tests, sometimes that search loader will appear and disappear so quickly that the test doesn't have time to check for it.

It would be really nice to be able to tap into the Ensure.eventually mechanism to ensure at least one of these conditions is met at some point. But i do think this approach will mostly work.

Thank you for your help!