externalNotepad <Notes>

Stores notes recorded by an Actor.

See TakeNotes and notes for more usage examples.

Sharing a notepad between actors

import { Actor, Cast, Notepad, TakeNotes } from '@serenity-js/core'

interface MyNotes {
  auth: {
    username: string;
    password: string;
  }
}

export class Actors implements Cast {

  // initialise a shared notepad when the Actors class is initialised
  private readonly sharedNotepad = Notepad.with<MyNotes>({
    auth: {
      username: 'test-user',
      password: 'SuperSecretP@ssword!',
    }
  });

  prepare(actor: Actor): Actor {
    switch (actor.name) {
      case 'Alice':
      case 'Bob':
        // Alice and Bob will share their notepad
        return actor.whoCan(TakeNotes.using(this.sharedNotepad));
      default:
        // other actors will get their own notepads
        return actor.whoCan(TakeNotes.using(Notepad.empty<AuthCredentials>()));
    }
  }
}

Learn more

• TakeNotes
• notes
• Cast

Hierarchy

• TinyType
  • Notepad

Index

Methods

• empty
• with
• notes
• has
• get
• set
• delete
• clear
• size
• equals
• toString
• toJSON

Methods

staticexternalempty

• empty<N>(): Notepad<N>

• Instantiates a new empty Notepad.

  ---

  Type parameters

  • N: Record<any, any>

  Returns Notepad<N>

staticexternalwith

• with<N>(notes: N): Notepad<N>

• Instantiates a new Notepad with an initial state.

  import { actorCalled, Notepad, notes, TakeNotes } from '@serenity-js/core'
  import { Ensure, equals } from '@serenity-js/assertions'
  
  interface MyNotes {
    personalDetails: {
      firstName: string;
      lastName: string;
    }
  }
  
  actorCalled('Leonard')
    .whoCan(
      TakeNotes.using(
        Notepad.with<MyNotes>({
          personalDetails: {
            firstName: 'Leonard',
            lastName: 'McLaud',
          }
        })
      )
    )
    .attemptsTo(
      Ensure.that(
        notes<MyNotes>().get('personalDetails').firstName,
        equals('Leonard')
      ),
    )

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  Type parameters

  • N: Record<any, any>

  Parameters

  • externalnotes: N

  Returns Notepad<N>

staticexternalnotes

• notes<N>(): NotepadAdapter<N>

• Creates a QuestionAdapter that simplifies access to the notes stored in this notepad. Allows the Actor to record, read, and remove notes.

  Learn more

  • notes
  • TakeNotes
  • Notepad

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  Type parameters

  • N: Record<any, any>

  Returns NotepadAdapter<N>

externalhas

• has<Subject>(subject: Subject): boolean

• Checks if a note identified by subject exists in the notepad.

  ---

  Type parameters

  • Subject: string | number | symbol

  Parameters

  • externalsubject: Subject

    A subject (name) that uniquely identifies a given note

  Returns boolean

  true if the note exists, false otherwise

externalget

• get<Subject>(subject: Subject): Notes[Subject]

• Retrieves a note, identified by subject, from the notepad.

  @throws

  LogicError Throws a LogicError if the note with a given subject has never been recorded.

  ---

  Type parameters

  • Subject: string | number | symbol

  Parameters

  • externalsubject: Subject

    A subject (name) that uniquely identifies a given note

  Returns Notes[Subject]

  The value of the previously recorded note.

externalset

• set<Subject>(subject: Subject, value: Notes[Subject]): Notepad<Notes>

• Stores a given value uniquely identified by subject in the notepad.

  ---

  Type parameters

  • Subject: string | number | symbol

  Parameters

  • externalsubject: Subject

    A subject (name) that uniquely identifies a given note

  • externalvalue: Notes[Subject]

    The value to record.

  Returns Notepad<Notes>

externaldelete

• delete<Subject>(subject: Subject): boolean

• Removes the note identified by subject from the notepad.

  ---

  Type parameters

  • Subject: string | number | symbol

  Parameters

  • externalsubject: Subject

  Returns boolean

  true if the item in the Notepad object existed and has been removed, false otherwise.

externalclear

• clear(): void

• Deletes all the notes stored in this notepad.

  ---

  Returns void

externalsize

• size(): number

• Returns the number of notes stored in the notepad.

  ---

  Returns number

externalequals

• equals(another: TinyType): boolean

• Inherited from TinyType.equals

  @desc

  Compares two tiny types by value

  @example

  class Id extends TinyTypeOf<string>() {}
  
  const id = new Id(`3cc0852d-fda7-4f61-874e-0cfadbd6182a`);
  
  id.equals(id) === true

  @example

  class FirstName extends TinyTypeOf<string>() {}
  class LastName  extends TinyTypeOf<string>() {}
  class Age       extends TinyTypeOf<number>() {}
  
  class Person extends TinyType {
    constructor(public readonly firstName: FirstName,
                public readonly lastName:  LastName,
                public readonly age:       Age,
    ) {
      super();
    }
  }
  
  const p1 = new Person(new FirstName('John'), new LastName('Smith'), new Age(42)),
        p2 = new Person(new FirstName('John'), new LastName('Smith'), new Age(42));
  
  p1.equals(p2) === true

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  Parameters

  • externalanother: TinyType

  Returns boolean

externaltoString

• toString(): string

• Inherited from TinyType.toString

  @desc

  Serialises the object to its string representation

  ---

  Returns string

externaltoJSON

• toJSON(): JSONValue

• Inherited from TinyType.toJSON

  @desc

  Serialises the object to a JSON representation.

  @example

  class FirstName extends TinyTypeOf<string>() {}
  
  const name = new FirstName('Jan');
  
  name.toJSON() === 'Jan'

  @example

  class FirstName extends TinyTypeOf<string>() {}
  class LastName  extends TinyTypeOf<string>() {}
  class Age       extends TinyTypeOf<number>() {}
  
  class Person extends TinyType {
    constructor(public readonly firstName: FirstName,
                public readonly lastName:  LastName,
                public readonly age:       Age,
    ) {
      super();
    }
  }
  
  const person = new Person(new FirstName('John'), new LastName('Smith'), new Age(42)),
  
  person.toJSON() === { firstName: 'John', lastName: 'Smith', age: 42 }

  ---

  Returns JSONValue