rest service & integration testing

[Lachlan Deck]

Hi all,

is there a recommended way (or one that people use successfully) to do integration testing for liftweb rest services (whether via selenium or otherwise)—json? Something like dispatch?

I can see how to mock requests (https://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/wiki/Mocking_HTTP_Requests), for a unit test, but… it’d be good to test against a running app too.

Perhaps it’s sbt that has me stumped. With maven, jetty could be bound to pre/post integration test phases (https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/usage.html). 

Are people using a selenium driver for rest services of some kind?

Any repos I could peruse that have more than hello world? 

cheers,

Lachlan Deck

[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

If you're going for full-on integration testing of a REST service, it seems

like probably this should be completely framework-independent? After

all, part of the point of a REST service is that the implementor of the API

is a black box, right? :)

Thanks,

Antonio

[Lachlan Deck]

That will be needed also, but I’m looking to fulfil standard TDD practices within the framework itself.

So any pointers / examples would be great.

cheers,

Lachlan Deck

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[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

Lift's RestHelpers are just PartialFunctions of Req to ()=>Box[LiftResponse]. So

you can unit test them by handing them a Req constructed to reflect the endpoint

you want to test. I don't believe I currently have any sample code handy, unfortunately;

someone else might be able to pitch in!

Thanks,

Antonio

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