created in your test. It will faulter at the redirect. I'm not sure
why $this->data is not being populated by testAction in your admin_add
action as you seem to be doing it correctly.. How do you know its not
being populated? What errors are you getting?
while testAction has a lot going for it, its limitations prevent me
from using it, among other things test that use testAction wont run in
the CLI testsuite cake shell. So I avoid using it and just test my
controllers the "hard way" As pointed out by Mark Story:
http://www.mark-story.com/posts/view/testing-cakephp-controllers-the-hard-way
In short, you have the right thing going with your TestPapers, simply
instantiate it into a Papers var it within your TestCase and call
functions on it directly. This way you can just set $this->Papers-
>data directly and then call $this->Papers->admin_add(); Since you've
overwritten redirect in your TestPapers class you'll be able to assert
the correct redirects.
Follow Mark's guide (link above), as he walks you through testing the
admin_edit of a posts controller. You'll almost certainly be able to
copy/paste most of it. Although I suggest Mocking the Auth Component
instead of writing Auth.user to the Session. Just my opinion.
Hope that helps,
Nick
http://www.webtechnick.com
On Dec 27, 2:28 am, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
> Yes, it uses a redirect (inside the method), but the problem comes up
> before reaching a possible redirect: empty($this->data) is true when
> entering the method itself...
>
> As for the redirect I think I already handle that with
>
> class TestPapers extends PapersController {
> var $autoRender = false;
>
> function redirect($url, $status = null, $exit = true) {
> $this->redirectUrl = $url;
> }
>
> but the problem, as I said, it's that no data is passed to the action...
>
>
>
> John Andersen wrote:
> > Is your add action using a redirect?
> > John
>
> > On Dec 26, 6:48 pm, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
> >> Hi
>
> >> I already managed to test some actions of controllers using testAction
> >> method; these were actions that were expected to return something.
>
> >> Now, I'd like to test an add action of the controller, thus, following
> >> the book I did:
>
> >> $data = array(
> >> 'Paper' => array(
> >> 'title' => 'MyTitle',
> >> 'year' => 2009
> >> ));
> >> debug($data);
> >> $results = $this->testAction(
> >> array(
> >> 'controller' => 'papers',
> >> 'action' => 'admin_add',
> >> ),
> >> array('data' => $data, 'method' => 'post')
> >> );
>
> >> but when executing the controller's action (I tried that with the
> >> debug), the $this->data is always empty and uninitialized... where am I
> >> going wrong?
>
> >> thanks in advance
> >> Lorenzo
>
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