How initialize request and response object in test class

[Suraj Savaratkar]

Hi guys,

i was written in vrifyLink();
public String verifyLink()
{
int empid = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("id"));
System.out.println(" empid " + empid);
employee = toCapDao.retriveFactsheet(empid);
String link = employee.getCapabilityBuilding();
}

And i want to test this method like public void testverifyLink(){} inside TestCapabiltyBuildingAction class.
I want to initialize the HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse object into this method; to initialize the
int empid = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("id")); in above nethod; but how i could achieve this.

Somebody tells he/she will be good appriciated.

[David Newton]

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[David Newton]

Personally, I'd either (a) mock the request object, or (b) pass in the pre-parsed parameter.

I believe your verifyLink method is doing too much (well, actually, it doesn't do anything except set "employee" since nothing is done with the link). It does more than "verify a link", it also is responsible for getting values from the request. I'd much rather see something like:

public String verifyLink(int id) {
    employee = toCapDao.retriveFactsheet(empid);
    String link = employee.getCapabilityBuilding(); 
    // Presumably something here
}

Getting stuff out of the request should be handled elsewhere, making the method that much easier to test.

[Suraj Savaratkar]

But i was try to use
@Test
public void testverifyLink()
{
MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
MockHttpServletResponse response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
}

To this api which '.jar' is required and how to pass the request and response object over above method.

[David Newton]

You've missed most of my point. You don't pass the mocked objects to the method--you can't, because of the way you built the method. If you do it my way, you don't *need* to mock the objects anyway.

That aside, there are several implementations of MockHttpServletRequest, I have no idea which one you're referring to.