// tokio spins up a new async runtime every time // at the beginning of each test case and shutdown at // the end of each test case // the spawn_app() function therefore only survives as long as the runtime #[tokio::test] async fn health_check_works(){ spawn_app(); let client = reqwest::Client::new(); let response = client.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/health_check").send().await.expect("Failed to execute health_check request."); assert!(response.status().is_success()); assert_eq!(Some(0), response.content_length()); } fn spawn_app() { let server = email_newsletter_api::run().expect("Failed to bind address"); // run() returns an instance of HttpServer that will run forever. // We don't want this behavior // Therefore we want to spawn our server, run our test logic // and then tear down the entire test suite let _ = tokio::spawn(server); }