help with '@In attribute requires non-null' in seamTest

[lpiccoli.lucio.asteriski.com]

hi all

i have am having getting a simply integration test to work with @In variable.

the Injection of value 'currentUser' is not being set and the error

@In attribute requires non-null value: LotForm.currentUser

is being thrown.

The other @In members are being set. In the test case i am setting the @In value like so

setValue("#{currentUser}", currentUser);

But it does not get set when involving the action method

 invokeAction("#{LotForm.create}");

The error when running with testNG

java.lang.AssertionError: org.jboss.seam.RequiredException: @In attribute requires non-null value: LotForm.currentUser
     at org.jboss.seam.mock.AbstractSeamTest$Request.onException(AbstractSeamTest.java:455)
     at org.jboss.seam.mock.AbstractSeamTest$Request$2.doFilter(AbstractSeamTest.java:504)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:83)
     at org.jboss.seam.web.LoggingFilter.doFilter(LoggingFilter.java:60)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
     at org.jboss.seam.web.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:53)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
     at org.jboss.seam.web.IdentityFilter.doFilter(IdentityFilter.java:40)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
     at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:90)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
     at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:64)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
     at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)
     at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:158)
     at org.jboss.seam.mock.AbstractSeamTest$Request.run(AbstractSeamTest.java:491)
     at com.asteriski.itpflow.business.action.LotFormActionTest.createProcess(LotFormActionTest.java:45)

The class that is being tested.

@Name("LotForm")
public class LotFormAction
{
    @Logger private Log log;

    
    @In(value="LotBusiness", create=true)
    LotBusiness lotBusiness;
      
    @In(value="currentUser")
    Person currentUser;

...

The test case

@Test  
public void createProcess() throws Exception{
 new FacesRequest() {
 @Override  protected void applyRequestValues() throws Exception {
          Person currentUser = new Person();
       currentUser.setFirstName("John");                               
       setValue("#{currentUser}", currentUser);
   }

  @Override
  protected void invokeApplication() throws Exception
  {
     invokeAction("#{LotForm.create}");
  }          
 }.run();
 }

I have tried

setValue("#{LotForm.currentUser}", currentUser);

but get same result.

how do i set the @In value for a integration test?

any help is appreciated.

-lp

[blabno]

try

getEventContext().set("currentUser",currentUser);

this :

setValue("#{LotForm.currentUser}", currentUser);

will not work cause before setCurrentUser is called on LotForm, the injection tries to take place and guess what - no currentUser in any scope.

[lpiccoli.lucio.asteriski.com]

getEventContext().set('currentUser',currentUser);

i cant seem to find any method called getEventContext in seamTest.

Q1.how and where is it used?

the code is working fine in deployment, but unable to write a test case for it.

the only consideration is the the currentUser is outjected like below.

Q2. Would this cause any problems with testing?

@Stateless
@Name("authenticator")
public class AuthenticatorBean implements Authenticator
{
    @Logger private Log log;

    
    @In Identity identity;
    @In Credentials credentials;
    @In Actor actor;

    @Out(required=true, scope=ScopeType.SESSION) //session only
    Person currentUser;

[lpiccoli.lucio.asteriski.com]

i used the

Contexts.getEventContext().set("#{currentUser}", currentUser);

in the existing test

@Override
protected void invokeApplication() throws Exception
{
Person currentUser = new Person();
currentUser.setFirstName("John");     
Contexts.getEventContext().set("#{currentUser}", currentUser);
Object object = Contexts.getEventContext().get("#{currentUser}");
assertNotNull(object);
assertEquals(currentUser, object);
invokeAction("#{LotForm.create}");
}

but still getting error

@In attribute requires non-null value: LotForm.currentUser

i thought this integration testing with seam injection was meant to be easy... what have i missed?

-lp

[blabno]

When you're messing with contexts directly than you deal with a Map, so no EL expressions a keys !

do

Contexts.getEventContext().set("currentUser", currentUser);

When you say

setValue("#{LotForm.currentUser}", currentUser);

you evaluate expression which is not what you want. You just want to put something into context.

[lpiccoli.lucio.asteriski.com]

yeap those pesky EL expressions are haunting me.

many thanks.

-lp