How do I use ScalaTest "inside" with an Array?

Question

I have a case class and am trying to test similar to this. The change would be something like this...

case class Record(names: Array[Name] ...)

I am new to Scala and not sure how this would work syntactically

Answer 1

Please consider the following code:

case class Name(first: String, middle: String, last: String)
case class Record(names: Array[Name])
val rec = Record(
  Array(Name("Sally", "Anna", "Jones"), Name("Sally1", "Anna1", "Jones1"))
)

inside (rec) { case Record(nameArray) =>
  inside (nameArray) { case Array(name, name1) =>
    inside(name) {
      case Name(first, middle, last) =>
        first should be("Sally")
        middle should be("Anna")
        last should be("Jones")
    }
    inside(name1) {
      case Name(first, middle, last) =>
        first should be("Sally1")
        middle should be("Anna1")
        last should be("Jones1")
    }
  }
}

Note that if the number of names at case Array(name, name1) is different then the actual, the test will fail.

As Luis mentioned in the comment, it is not recommended to use Arrays in case classes. This code will work the same if you change Array into List, Vector or ArraySeq.