Another option: Write your tests in Groovy, which lets you access private
fields. (Of course you'll get other benefits from using Groovy. In short,
it's a much better language for testing, especially when combined with
Spock.)
Cheers,
Peter
Christian Edward Gruber-3 wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> So @Property is beautiful, but sometimes when I'm testing the
> thin controller logic that remains I want access to an @Property from
> within the test in order to verify that something was done/changed.
> I've looked at PageTester, but I don't want to dig into the rendered
> document, because I'm really just testing the java logic. But I also
> don't want to create accessors for my test objects alone.
>
> I've looked around and found PageTester, Testify, and tapestry-
> xpath, but nothing that I can run the component through that will add
> accessors/mutators for the @Property-annotated fields so my tests can
> access them. I'm thinking something along the lines of:
>
> public void testFoo() {
> MyComponent foo = UnitTester.manifest(MyComponent.class);
> UnitTester.assign(foo, "bar", someBar);
> foo.doSomething();
> assertEquals(anotherBar, UnitTester.obtain(foo, "bar"));
> }
>
> ... where MyComponent.bar is a field with @Property. There's
> really no need to create an accessor just for this, and certainly no
> need to render the component - I don't care about its rendering, just
> its code.
>
> Anything that might solve the problem this way? Or any
> recommendations from Howard or others on where to start to build
> something like this myself? I'm not very familiar with the
> classloader stuff we do in T5 and the javassist work... if I am going
> to do this myself, I'll need some good hints as to where to start
> looking.
>
> cheers,
> Christian.
>
>
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