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David Spurr  
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 More options Feb 28 2008, 4:56 am
From: David Spurr <david.sp...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:56:22 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Feb 28 2008 4:56 am
Subject: Re: Functional testing Rails controllers with RubyAMF?
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I know I didn't post my response too long ago but after a bit of sleep
I've decided that if I can't get some sort of testing for AMF done
then I can't really use it right now. I'm happy to spend the time
creating the test helper and will release anything I create under the
same licence as RubyAMF. But it would be really helpful if some of you
guys who have more knowledge about how RubyAMF works internally could
give me a pointer here and there that would be great.

But firstly is what I want to do even possible. I gave up in the early
hours of the morning when I had something like this to try and
serialize an example request:

amfobj = AMFObject.new
amfbody = AMFBody.new( "", "", obj[:body] )
amfobj.add_body( amfbody )
AMFSerializer.new(amfobj).run

But that didn't work out very well.

I could do with knowing what the absolute minimum is for an amfobj for
the Serializer to do it's work, and how to create stuff like the body
-- e.g. what is the AMFBody.new expecting as it's value param?

On Feb 28, 1:58 am, David Spurr <david.sp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I'm trying to knock together some sort of helper that would aid
> functional testing with RubyAMF.

> My idea goes along the lines of this:

> Have a helper that defines a post_amf method, using this from your
> functional tests would be just like using the standard post method.

> Inside the post_amf method it switches out the controller your testing
> for the amf controller and sets things up e.g.:

>   amf_post :index, [ :param = 'something' ]

>  1. Serializes the request, with the source set to the name of the
> controller your testing & the method name to the one you passed in and
> the params put into the body.
>  2. Switches out the @controller for the amf controller
>  3. Set anything else up set as the content type on the request
>  4. Calls the gateway method on the amf controller with the params
> (which should now be serialized to amf)
>  5. Switches back the @controller to what it was

> If that works then that 'should' be calling the amf gateway with
> exactly what it needs and everything 'should' be doing things as if
> they were a normal request.

> Then you would also need a helper method to test that the response was
> AMF (e.g. used the format.amf) and something to convert that (or do it
> after the end of the send) back to something you can test.

> I know I'm over-simplifying things there (as I have spent the past
> couple of hours trying to get my head around how Rails functional
> tests mock out the requests and RubyAMF works to do the above) and I
> haven't gotten very far see the pastie code:http://pastie.caboo.se/158549

> That code has it calling the gateway how I envisioned it, but I'm
> really stuck on trying to serialize something that the gateway would
> accept as a valid amf request.


 
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