Uniting Testing Handlers, Mock Controllers and Setting Properties

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Hello Guys,

Back into my adventures of unit testing today. On my agenda this morning is unit tests for handlers, and I’m running into a few snags.

Fistly, I’m trying to mock some properties of the controller, which would usually be injected, things like settings and services.

public void function setUp() {

// Call the super setup method to setup the app.

super.setup();

// We need to mock the service.

serviceService = getMockBox().createStub();

// Mock the methods for find all, by default this will return null.

serviceService.$(“findWhere”);

// Place this service as a property into the handler.

getController().$property(propertyName=“ServiceService”, mock=serviceService);

}

I’ve tried to set these in my setup method like so, but they seem to just fail with an exception that says the mock controller has no method $property.

Can anyone offer any more advice on how to set these properties? am I even approaching the unit test of the handler correctly? or should I be extending BaseHandlerTest.cfc?

Thanks,

Robert

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I don't know for sure, but I guess the mocked object is decorated with
the $property method, so you won't be able to use it on the controller
if it's not mocked.

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Hi John,

It would seem so, looks as if the mockController isn’t actually a mock. :-s

I’m just experimenting with ideas trying to find a clean way to unit test handler methods, but not really able to get anything running at the moment.

Robert