How to test a page with page action method?

[hubaghdadi]

Hi.
How to write an integration test for a page that uses a page action method?
I mean I can't use (I think) new FacesRequest() instance as the page gets a GET request, not faces (post) request.
Thanks.

[thejavafreak]

Try testing your Action component instead. This is written in the documentation.

[hubaghdadi]

This is exactly put me back to my original problem:
How to unit test an action class that have a dependency on Seam managed Hibernate session?
How to bootstrap Hibernate Session in unit tests?
(I posted it as a question previously but I didn't get an answer).

[thejavafreak]

If you want to bootstrap the hibernate managed session, you must use integration testing. This is written in the docs.

[hubaghdadi]

I'm not arguing you but I think it is possible to write unit tests (not integration tests) for Seam managed Hibernate sessions.
I read Michael Yuan's book "JBoss Seam", he wrote a unit test for an action that uses an entity manager, he initialize the entity manager by hand, inject it into the action class, running the test, voila.
Any way, I tried to write some integration tests:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=128867

[pmuir]

On unit testing with a persistence context - yes you can do it (as in Michael's book) but I don't think it is sensible (I will suggest they take it out for the 2nd edition).

On page actions - it "just works"

new FacesRequest("/foo.xhtml") {

}.run();

will run the page action.