How to define "contextRoot" in standalone Graphene tests

[christoffer]

Hi, I started using Graphene and Drone to drive my Selenium tests. First of all, thanks for the great work from the Arquillian / Graphene / Drone teams and the Arquillian nobles :-).

I was wondering if it is possible to use the @Location annotation with standalone Graphene tests (i.e. without using the Container management & deployment). It works for me when I use absolute URLs, but when I use relative URLs I get:

org.jboss.arquillian.graphene.location.exception.LocationException: The location login.action is not valid URI and no contextRoot was discovered to treat it as relative URL

How can I set the missing 'contextRoot'?

Moreover is it possible to register additional objects for injection, i.e. let Arquillian / Graphene / Drone do injection of "managers" / context objects?

[orbix42]

I'm just about to start implementing the same basic approach in my test suite, and I believe you should be able to define the base URL as a property within your arquillian.xml like this:

<arquillian>

<extension name="graphene">

<property name="url">http://localhost:8080/app/</property>

</extension>

</arquillian>

I found this info via the following Jira ticket: [ARQGRA-374] Allow to setup custom Location URL via arquillian.xml configuration with CustomizableURLResourceProvider - …

Like I said, I haven't had a chance to implement this yet, but hopefully my research will pay off for you!

[christoffer]

Hi David,

thanks for your input - I had found that possibility, but it did not change anything.

I finally found out why (and now it's working just fine) - in the GrapheneExtension class the following three lines stopped it from working for me:

if (SecurityActions.isClassPresent("org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.impl.enricher.resource.URLResourceProvider")) {
  builder.override(ResourceProvider.class, URLResourceProvider.class, CustomizableURLResourceProvider.class);
}

Now, if you are following the approach here Functional Testing using Drone and Graphene · Arquillian Guides by just skipping the Arquillian (core) stuff from the earlier tutorials, you will end up with a pom.xml that does not import

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.container</groupId>
  <artifactId>arquillian-container-test-impl-base</artifactId>
</dependency>

which contains the URLResourceProvider class. So after I included that dependency, it worked like a charm.

Cheers, Chris

[lfryc]

Hey Christoffer,

nice catch,

I guess we should make the alternative approach and if URLResourceProvider is not found on classpath, we can safely register Graphene's own in an else branch, wdyt?

Would be great if you could create an issue and eventually send a PR. :-)

[christoffer]

Hi Lukas and David,

I filed a PR [ARQGRA-468] Cannot use relative @Location when using "standalone" JUnit integration - JBoss Issue Tracker

So my first described solution using the extra dependency is in fact no solution, because the extra dependency arquillian-container-test-impl-base brings too much stuff into the classpath that screws up JUnit.

So using

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.junit</groupId>
  <artifactId>arquillian-junit-standalone</artifactId>
</dependency>

together with

<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.container</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-container-test-impl-base</artifactId>
</dependency>

does NOT work, JUnit will try to execute the @Test method twice (I guess because of duplicate TestContextProvider or something like that).

What worked for me was to just use

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.junit</groupId>
  <artifactId>arquillian-junit-container</artifactId>
</dependency>

lfryc The Graphene resource provider inherits from the URLResourceProvider :-(

[lfryc]

URLResourceProvider doesn't do anything special, it borrows just canProvide method that Graphene can reimplement itself.

So little bit of refactoring would be required inside CustomizableURLResourceProvider - use delegation pattern instead of inheritance:

arquillian-graphene/CustomizableURLResourceProvider.java at master · arquillian/arquillian-graphene · GitHub