Hey i am trying to develop a sample app in groovy on grails...i have an action called login..which doesn't do anything except to render a page called login...I think there is no need to explicitly render any view called login inside the action, as my view name matches the action name.
def login = {
}
As i follow TDD..I want to assert that that response was successful..How do i do that in groovy unit testing?
You can't unit test the HTTP response, as the controller is just a plain old groovy class when called from a unit test. You'll need to use an integration test (using a MockHttpServletRequest/Response) or use one of the functional testing plugins: gfunc, webtest, selenium etc
There should be plenty of examples of both integration and functional tests to be found via Google.
cheers
Lee
when i am able to test the response content like this "controller.response.contentAsString " in a unit test,why cant i test the status of the view rendered by the controller?..I just want to assert that my response was a success and not a 404..I feel it should be possible