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-rw-r--r--test/functional/helpers.lua14
-rw-r--r--test/functional/legacy/061_undo_tree_spec.lua10
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/test/functional/helpers.lua b/test/functional/helpers.lua
index ff62b4de86..d1ab02f361 100644
--- a/test/functional/helpers.lua
+++ b/test/functional/helpers.lua
@@ -243,6 +243,19 @@ local function connect(file_or_address)
return Session.new(stream)
end
+-- Calls fn() until it returns without error, up to `max` times.
+local function retry(fn, max)
+ local retries = max and (max - 1) or 2
+ for _ = 1, retries do
+ local success = pcall(fn)
+ if success then
+ return
+ end
+ end
+ -- pcall() is not used for the final attempt so failure can bubble up.
+ fn()
+end
+
local function clear(...)
local args = {unpack(nvim_argv)}
local new_args
@@ -530,6 +543,7 @@ return function(after_each)
prepend_argv = prepend_argv,
clear = clear,
connect = connect,
+ retry = retry,
spawn = spawn,
dedent = dedent,
source = source,
diff --git a/test/functional/legacy/061_undo_tree_spec.lua b/test/functional/legacy/061_undo_tree_spec.lua
index 9bf69ccba1..2069204938 100644
--- a/test/functional/legacy/061_undo_tree_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/legacy/061_undo_tree_spec.lua
@@ -98,15 +98,7 @@ describe('undo tree:', function()
expect_line('123456abc')
end
- -- Retry up to 3 times. pcall() is _not_ used for the final attempt, so
- -- that failure messages can bubble up.
- for _ = 1, 2 do
- local success = pcall(test_earlier_later)
- if success then
- return
- end
- end
- test_earlier_later()
+ helpers.retry(test_earlier_later)
end)
it('file-write specifications', function()