package ioutils import ( "bytes" "io" "io/ioutil" "testing" ) func TestBufReader(t *testing.T) { reader, writer := io.Pipe() bufreader := NewBufReader(reader) // Write everything down to a Pipe // Usually, a pipe should block but because of the buffered reader, // the writes will go through done := make(chan bool) go func() { writer.Write([]byte("hello world")) writer.Close() done <- true }() // Drain the reader *after* everything has been written, just to verify // it is indeed buffering <-done output, err := ioutil.ReadAll(bufreader) if err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } if !bytes.Equal(output, []byte("hello world")) { t.Error(string(output)) } }