FunctionalTest, URL and redirect

[Neoh59]

Hi all,

I just begin with functional tests and ... I have some questions.

My app is based on the sample app "booking". I used the CRUD module to manage database, and the secure module to restrict access to the CRUD pages (admin area).
I want to check that my admin area need an authenticated user (see attachment).

L17: My test starts with trying to connect to the admin area.
L18: HTTP status must be 302 because user is not authenticated, so he is redirected to a login page.
L19: The test reads the "Location" HTTP header (is there any constant for that ? in Play! or Java ?)
L20+L21: If I just call GET() for the "Location" so I don't have a valid response (404 => Play! page with routes)
L22 to L28: I have to create a java.net.URL to only get the path (not the scheme, the host, ..) so GET() give me the valid response for the redirect

Perhaps my steps are bad. Perhaps I have to make it in a different way.
But if it's correct, I think it's a bit complicated.
Is there a method with Play! like : GETandRedirect("/path/url") ?
Or GETfromURL("http://localhost/complete/url") ?

Thanks for help.

PS: I also see there is a class : FunctionalTest.URL
But I don't know what I can do with it.

[Guillaume Bort]

You should use selenium tests for this kind of scenario.

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[Manuel Paccagnella]

I have the same concern about this. I want to test my controllers directly without passing through the UI (that tends to be brittle) and I need to pass parameters to and check responses from the URL. But if the URL is restricted by the Secure module I can't do this because of the redirection.

Maybe I only need to refactor and move out the controllers all but the essential code so that I can test the business logic independently? I have a colleague that tends to write procedural Java code directly in the controllers. Too bad.

[Guillaume Bort]

I think we just need a simple helper method in the FunctionalTest
superclass here. If someone could help us and make a patch it would be
great.

[Neoh59]

I now use selenium tests like Guillaume said to me.

But if it can help someone, here is a patch I tried to code.

I'm a newbee with Git so perhaps it's not perfect ... but Play! ant task works.

And perhaps my code is not perfect too.

Like I said : "if it can help" ... to do a better patch. :)

[Guillaume Bort]

I would prefer a pull request on github. Otherwise, please open a bug
and attach this patch. Otherwise it will probably be lost here....

[Neoh59]

Sorry for the pull request on github, I just add a ticket with this patch : #534