Testing REST service

[Eric Liou]

I built a simple Scala Lift application with REST endpoint.

I want to write some tests. But Lift's testing documentation is horrible :/

Everyone points to this 2012 gist https://gist.github.com/heralight/2235088

Can anyone teach me how to write a simple test? I need something like the gist example:

"process a JSON RestHelper Request" withReqFor("http://foo.com/api/info.json") in { req =>
      (WebSpecSpecRest(req)() match {
        case Full(JsonResponse(_, _, _, 200)) => true
        case other => failure("Invalid response : " + other); false
      }) must_== true
    }

I found that Lift has its WebSpec, can I use that? (WebSpec's doc is not therehttps://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/liftweb/WebSpec)

Or can anybody point me to a tutorial? I'm reaaally lost.

[Eric Liou]

I tried using the WebSpec. But it seems that I'm using a wrong version of specs2.

lift = 2.6

org.specs2 = 3.6.2

[error] missing or invalid dependency detected while loading class file 'WebSpec.class'.

[error] Could not access type XmlMatchers in package org.specs2.matcher,

[error] because it (or its dependencies) are missing. Check your build definition for

[error] missing or conflicting dependencies. (Re-run with `-Ylog-classpath` to see the problematic classpath.)

[error] A full rebuild may help if 'WebSpec.class' was compiled against an incompatible version of org.specs2.matcher.

[error] one error found

[error] (test:compileIncremental) Compilation failed