If you have ever wondered how you could easily test your servlets with JUnit… Then I have found a very interesting blog entry for you
If you have used commons-httpclient, this is about as simple as it gets, but I still wanted to have a unit test for it. So the problem became, “how can I test this method when it requires that I hit a web site”. After some searching I found that the Jetty servlet-container has a ServletTester class just for this purpose.
I would like to recommend you to read the article to let you test more than you are now.
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Stefon's Blog 
February 4, 2009 at 2:37 am |
I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve, but another alternative is to use the Spring mock objects (e.g. MockHttpServletRequest).
These objects allow you set parameters etc then pass them into your doXXX methods and the resulting mock response object can be the subject of assertions in your junit tests.
August 11, 2009 at 9:19 pm |
All I want is a set of mock Servlet API objects to test utility classes that __marginally__ depend on Servlet API objects. I don’t need some overly convoluted Apache Cactus framework or unfamiliar and unstructured commons-httpclient that takes forever learn, build, configure or test itself. Too much overhead for a task designed to reduce overhead.
I am going to check-out these mock objects that Spring offers and see what I come-up with.
August 12, 2009 at 2:02 am |
Yes, Spring mock classes are precisely what I was looking for.
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