The test class below verifies that a simple HttpService gets content from a given URL. Both the implementations shown make the test pass, though one is clearly wrong because it constructs the URL with an incorrect argument.
To avoid this and correctly specify the behaviour I want, I'd like to verify that in the use block of the test case, I construct one (and only one) instance of the URL class, and that the url argument to the constructor is correct. A Groovy enhancement seems like it would let me add the statement
mockURLContext.demand.URL { assertEquals "http://www.foo.com", url }
but what can I do without that Groovy enhancement?
Update: Replaced "mock" with "stub" in the title, as I'm only interested in checking the state not necessarily the detail of the interactions. Groovy has a StubFor mechanism that I haven't used, so I'll leave my code as is, but I think you could just replace MockFor with StubFor throughout.
import grails.test.*
import groovy.mock.interceptor.MockFor
class HttpServiceTests extends GrailsUnitTestCase {
void testGetsContentForURL() {
def content = [text : "<html><body>Hello, world</body></html>"]
def mockURLContext = new MockFor(URL.class)
mockURLContext.demand.getContent { content }
mockURLContext.use {
def httpService = new HttpService()
assertEquals content.text, httpService.getContentFor("http://www.foo.com")
}
}
}
// This is the intended implementation.
class HttpService {
def getContentFor(url) {
new URL(url).content.text
}
}
// This intentionally wrong implementation also passes the test!
class HttpService {
def getContentFor(url) {
new URL("http://www.wrongurl.com").content.text
}
}