3 Replies Latest reply on Aug 17, 2007 10:38 AM by larshuber

    EntityController not testable?

    nhpvti
    nhpvti Jul 23, 2007 5:37 AM

      It seems that testing of classes derived from EntityController is impossible if a logger or faces messages are in use.

      Good news: EntityController has method setEntityManager

      Bad news: similar methods for logger and faces messages are missing.

      For example calling this.addFacesMessage("some text") throws the following:

      java.lang.IllegalStateException: No active conversation context
 at org.jboss.seam.core.FacesMessages.instance(FacesMessages.java:417)
 at org.jboss.seam.framework.Controller.getFacesMessages(Controller.java:76)
 at org.jboss.seam.framework.Controller.addFacesMessage(Controller.java:98)


      For example calling this.info("some text") throws the following: 

      java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.jboss.seam.framework.Controller.info(Controller.java:213)


      Is there any solution or workaround?

      I'm using Seam 1.2.1 GA



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        • 1. Re: EntityController not testable?
          christian.bauer
          christian.bauer Jul 23, 2007 6:35 AM (in response to nhpvti)

          Run it inside a SeamTest.

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          • 2. Re: EntityController not testable?
            nhpvti
            nhpvti Jul 23, 2007 8:27 AM (in response to nhpvti)

             

            "christian.bauer@jboss.com" wrote:
            Run it inside a SeamTest.


            Does your answer mean that EntityController subclasses can be tested in an integration test, but not in a unit test if they rely on a logger or faces messages? 

            public class MyEntityControllerTest extends SeamTest
{

 @Test
 public void testEntityController()
 {
 try
 {
 new FacesRequest()
 {
 @Override
 protected void invokeApplication()
 {
 assert invokeMethod("#{myEntityController.save}").equals("OK");
 }
 }.run();
 } catch (Exception e)
 {
 Logging.getLog(MyEntityControllerTest.class).error(e.getMessage());
 }
 }
}


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            • 3. Re: EntityController not testable?
              larshuber
              larshuber Aug 17, 2007 10:38 AM (in response to nhpvti)

              For unit testing you can user field setting. I tried it with the logger, but not with faces messages.

              setField(obj, "log", org.jboss.seam.log.Logging.getLog(obj.getClass().getName()));


              obj is an instance of EntityController subclass.

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