StrutsTestCase for JUnit

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.7.1

Notes:
StrutsTestCase for JUnit - release 1.7
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This release introduces support for Struts 1.1, provides
several requested enhancements, and fixes many reported
defects.

The StrutsTestCase library is now available as four distinct
releases supporting both the 2.2 and 2.3 versions of the 
Servlet specification, and both the 1.0.x and 1.1 versions
of the Struts Framework:

strutstest-1.1_2.3.zip - supports Struts 1.1 and Servlets 2.3
strutstest-1.1_2.2.zip - supports Struts 1.1 and Servlets 2.2
strutstest-1.0_2.3.zip - supports Struts 1.0 and Servlets 2.3
strutstest-1.0_2.2.zip - supports Struts 1.0 and Servlets 2.3

Also, many thanks to Sean Pritchard for his invaluable help and contributions.

Questions and comments are always welcome!

Deryl Seale - deryl@acm.org

Changes:
Change Log
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New Features:
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- StrutsTestCase now supports both Struts 1.1 and Struts
  1.0.x in two distinct distributions, and has been fully 
  tested against the 1.1b1 milestone release.  This
  requires all Struts dependency libraries to be in your
  CLASSPATH, including commons-beanutils.jar, commons-
  collections.jar, commons-digester.jar, and commons-
  logging.jar.

- StrutsTestCase now supports both Servlet 2.2 and 2.3 specs
  in two distinct distributions.

- Added setServletConfigFile() method for loading web.xml 
  files, and setting ServletConfig and ServletContext 
  parameters accordingly.  Supports both init-param and 
  context-param tags. (MockStrutsTestCase only)

- Added setFailIfInvalid() method to allow overriding 
  default behavior of failing a test case if ActionForm 
  validation fails.  (CactusStrutsTestCase only)

- Added explicit checks to ensure that the base class setUp
  () method has been called, and failing test cases when it 
  has not.  Previously, sub-classes that overrode setUp() 
  without calling super.setUp() were subject to confusing
  errors, and so proper initialization is now enforced.

- Un-deprecated getActionServlet() in MockStrutsTestCase, 
  and added the same in CactusStrutsTestCase.  This can be 
  useful for complex tests.

- Added setInitParameter() method to set ActionServlet
  initialization parameters.  (MockStrutsTestCase only)

- Implemented the following Mock Servlet methods:

  ServletContextSimulator: setInitParameter()
  HttpSessionSimulator: getServletContext()
  HttpResponseSimulator: setStatus(), reset(), sendRedirect(), 
   encodeURL(), encodeRedirectURL(), addHeader(), setHeader(), 
   containsHeader(), addIntHeader(), setIntHeader()

Bug Fixes:
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- Fixed bug where an action forward declared as a redirect
  (ie: redirect="true" in struts-config.xml) was causing
  a NullPointerException.  (MockStrutsTestCase only)

- Fixed bug where request URL's with jessionid appended were
  failing the validateForward() method.  This portion of the
  URL is now stripped before validation.

- Fixed bug where validating an Action without an associated
  ActionForm caused a NullPointerException.    
  (CactusStrutsTestCase only)

- Fixed bug where validating an action that is a simple
  forward (and so does not have an associated Action class)
  throws a NullPointerException.  (CactusStrutsTestCase 
  only)

- Removed tearDown() methods.  They were not useful and 
  sometimes caused spurious errors.