Tony, The purpose of unit testing is to run your tests in a black box environment. If you auto-load all of the Spring configurations from your web.xml and use them, you're kind of defeating the purpose of unit testing.
If you're looking for integration testing (which it sounds like you are), then you should probably look here: http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5/tapestry-test/ I'll assume you really do mean unit testing though. Tapestry provides very clean hooks to unit test your pages. I've implemented a variation of the techniques found on the Wiki... The main difference being that you get to use the traditional Tapestry annotations. The real power of this is that I can maintain an entirely separate Spring configuration that contains mock objects (called "test-applicationContext.xml" in the code below). Hope this helps, Joel Here's the code: /******* PageTestSupport.java *******/ package com.myapp.dir.pages; import org.apache.tapestry.test.PageTester; import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest; import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest; public abstract class PageTestSupport { protected PageTester pageTester; @BeforeTest(alwaysRun=true) protected void init() { //crucial line... Looks for a 'TestHarnessModule' in the com.myapp.dir.services package pageTester= new PageTester("com.myapp.dir", "TestHarness"); } @AfterTest(alwaysRun=true) protected void destroy() { pageTester.shutdown(); } } /******* TestHarnessModule.java *******/ package com.myapp.dir.services; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ObjectLocator; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ObjectProvider; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.OrderedConfiguration; public class TestHarnessModule { // contribution master object provider public static void contributeMasterObjectProvider( OrderedConfiguration<ObjectProvider> configuration, ObjectLocator locator) { configuration.add("spring", locator .autobuild(SpringObjectProvider.class)); } } /******* SpringObjectProvider.java *******/ package com.myapp.dir.services; import java.util.logging.Level; import java.util.logging.Logger; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.AnnotationProvider; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ObjectLocator; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ObjectProvider; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.annotations.Inject; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.annotations.InjectService; import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.services.TypeCoercer; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; public class SpringObjectProvider implements ObjectProvider { private TypeCoercer typeCoercer; private ApplicationContext context; private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(SpringObjectProvider.class.getName()); public SpringObjectProvider(@InjectService("TypeCoercer") TypeCoercer typeCoercer) { this.typeCoercer = typeCoercer; } /** * @see org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ObjectProvider#provide(java.lang.Class, * org.apache.tapestry.ioc.AnnotationProvider, * org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ObjectLocator) */ public <T> T provide(Class<T> objectType, AnnotationProvider annotationProvider, ObjectLocator locator) { //hack... if (objectType.getName().startsWith("org.apache.tapestry")) { return null; } Inject annotation = annotationProvider.getAnnotation(Inject.class); if (annotation == null) return null; Object obj = null; try { String[] beanNames = getSpringContext().getBeanNamesForType(objectType); if(beanNames.length > 0) { //return first result obj = getSpringContext().getBean(beanNames[0]); } else { logger.info("Couldn't find a bean for type " + objectType.getName()); } } catch (Exception e) { logger.log(Level.WARNING, "Problem occurred when finding a bean for type " + objectType.getName(), e); } T coerced = typeCoercer.coerce(obj, objectType); return coerced; } private ApplicationContext getSpringContext() { if (context == null) { context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext( new String[] { "test-applicationContext.xml" }); } return context; } } -----Original Message----- From: Tony Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:24 AM To: users@tapestry.apache.org Subject: unit testing I have two questions about unit testing with tapestry. I am trying to create a setup where I can unit test pages using appropriate mocks and stubs for injected business services whether they come from Tapestry IOC or Spring. I've seen the Wiki entries for SpringIntegrationAlternative and SpringIntegrationAlternative2. This doesn't seem to be a totally natural solution - in the case of alternative 2 I have to change my injection annotations to get spring beans in a testing context. We are currently using 5.0.7 snapshot for evaluation - I'm wondering if there is going to be a fully integrated solution going forward? Secondly how can I mock out components injected into the container (from both Tapeestry and Spring) underneath a PageTester instance? I notice there's an IOCTestCase and a TapestryTestCase in the source - am I looking the right direction? Thx.T. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
