Testing moustache routes

[Giorgio Valoti]

Hi,
I’m trying to find the best way to test route handling with moustache <https://github.com/cgrand/moustache>, without generating the whole response.

Instead of:
(app
[""] (fn [req] {:status 200 :header {...} :body}))

Ideally, I’d like to write something like:
(app
[""] {:page-name "index"})

and then use the :page-name to build my template. At the same time I can just assert that given a URL like "/" the expected page is called "index".

Is there a way to do this? Am I completely off track?

Thank you in advance
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Giorgio Valoti

[Saul Hazledine]

On Feb 25, 10:36 am, Giorgio Valoti <giorgi...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I’m trying to find the best way to test route handling with moustache <https://github.com/cgrand/moustache>, without generating the whole response.
>

For actual unit testing its worth looking at ring-mock:
https://github.com/weavejester/ring-mock

> Instead of:
> (app
>     [""] (fn [req] {:status 200 :header {...} :body}))
>
> Ideally, I’d like to write something like:
> (app
>     [""] {:page-name "index"})
>
> and then use the :page-name to build my template. At the same time I can just assert that given a URL like "/" the expected page is called "index".
>

I don't fully understand what you intend to do but I believe that you
could write some ring middleware that takes a request, the response
from moustache and combines them in some way (perhaps by filling in an
Enlive template?).

(defn build-template [app]
(fn [req]
(if-let [{:keys [page-name]} (app req)]
(do-something-clever page-name req)
{:status 404 :body "Not found"})))


Saul

[Giorgio Valoti]

My intent is testing moustache routes in isolation from page generation. I thought about using a middleware solution but I was unsure about it: would it be a good / idiomatic use of middleware?

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Giorgio Valoti

[James Reeves]

On 25 February 2011 11:08, Giorgio Valoti <gior...@me.com> wrote:
> My intent is testing moustache routes in isolation from page generation. I thought about using a middleware solution but I was unsure about it: would it be a good / idiomatic use of middleware?

I think what you want here is to use a combination of ring-mock to
mock your requests, and something like clojure.contrib.mock or midje
to mock the functions your routes call.

For example:

(def handler
(app [""] index-handler))

(deftest test-routes
(expect [index-handler (times 1)]
(handler (request :get "/")))))

- James

[Giorgio Valoti]

Sounds like the perfect solution. Thank you, James!

Ciao
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Giorgio Valoti