4 Replies Latest reply on Mar 13, 2011 11:51 AM by yegor256

How to replace a Managed Bean on-fly?

yegor256 Mar 4, 2011 11:30 AM

This is what I'm trying to do:

public void testAuthenticatesUser() throws Exception {
  JSFSession jsfSession = new JSFSession("/");
  JSFClientSession client = jsfSession.getJSFClientSession();
  JSFServerSession server = jsfSession.getJSFServerSession();
  server.getFacesContext()
    .getExternalContext()
    .getApplicationMap()
    .put("authenticator", new MockedAuthenticator());
  String url = WebConversationFactory.getWARURL() + "/auth?login=test&pwd=3737";
  WebClient web = jsfSession.getWebClient();
  web.getPage(url);
}

The idea is replace "authenticator" application-scoped managed bean with a mocked object. This object won't do real-life requests to LDAP, but will just return "true". The problem is that the example above doesn't work. Am I doing it right?

1. How to replace a Managed Bean on-fly?

ssilvert Mar 4, 2011 12:16 PM (in response to yegor256)

I think this is the wrong approach. I doubt that you will ever get it to work that way even though if you could it might be a little cleaner than what I'm about to suggest.

Instead, add a ServletContextListener to your test WAR. The SCL would set up your mock authenticator. If you are using a Servlet 3.0 contianer then you could put this in its own jar and declare it with a web-fragment.xml. That would be a pretty clean way of doing it. You just include that jar when you are testing.

Stan
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2. Re: How to replace a Managed Bean on-fly?

yegor256 Mar 4, 2011 12:44 PM (in response to ssilvert)

Hm.. I have an impression that JSFUnit is going to let me control my context entirely, including getting and setting managed beans (and their properties). Isn't it true? If I have to deal directly with Servlets why would I need JSFUnit on top of HttpUnit than?

Are you sure that I can't do what I'm trying to do with JSFUnit only?
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3. How to replace a Managed Bean on-fly?

ssilvert Mar 4, 2011 12:51 PM (in response to yegor256)

I thought of another way. Use an InitialRequestStrategy. From an InitialRequestStrategy, the only server-side artifact you can get to is the HttpSession. You can get that via WebConversationFactory.getSessionFromThreadLocal(). From there you can call HttpSession.getServletContext().setAttribute() to insert your Mock.

Make sure you do this within the InitialRequestStrategy. You want this to happen before the call to new JSFSession().

Stan
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4. How to replace a Managed Bean on-fly?

yegor256 Mar 13, 2011 11:51 AM (in response to yegor256)

Stan, many thanks. Now it works perfectly: http://trac.fazend.com/rempl/browser/rempl/trunk/rempl/rempl-oss/src/test/java/com/rempl/oss/helpers/HomeXhtmlTest.java?rev=604&marks=36-59
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