Re: [Httpunit-develop] Setting application context in a servlet.

[Ken H. <ke...@nc...>]

Andrew R. Rothwell wrote:

>Crew,
>
>I am using HttpUnit within JUnit, and in conjunction with Spring.
>
>In my JUnit setUp() method I call ServletRunner with my web.xml
>file. This results in 4 servlets being autoloaded.
>
>These servlets reference external beans which the code under
>test needs. So I figured I'd create an application context by
>loading these beans using Spring's FileSystemXmlApplicationContext()
>constructor.
>
>What I need of course is a way to associate this context with each
>of the autoloaded servlets.
>
>>From a review of the code it seems pretty clear that changes are
>required to HttpUnit to support this sort of functionality.
>
>I was wondering if anyone has considered this issue, even developed
>a solution for it, or at least have guidelines on how to proceed.
>
>I am not on the httpunit-develop list; please reply directly.
>
>Cheers,
>Andrew.
>
>
>  
>
I'm assuming by 'application context' you're meaning ServletContext - I 
usually use a Mock object for the servlet context itself, and a subclass 
of the servlet under test that retrieves this mock object. I'll leave 
the creation of the MockServletContext to you - it's just an implementor 
of the ServletContext interface.

Something like:

class TestIt extends TestCase {
    public void test1() {
        MockServletContext ctx = new MockServletContext();
        ctx.setAttribute("foo","bar"); // some data I want in the 
servlet context...
        MyServletSubclass testObject = new MyServletSubClass(ctx);
        assertXXX(testObject.somethingorother());
    }

    private class MyServletSubClass extends MyServlet {
        private ServletContext _context = null;
        public MyServletSubClass(ServletContext context) {
            super();
            _context = context;
          }
        public ServletContext getServletContext() { return _context; } 
// overrides method in superclass.
    }
}

Ken