Re: Servlet redirection testing

Hi Miroslav,
  I appreciate your attempt to answer.But to be frank
I am not sure what you mean.Could you modify my code
snippet & let me know how you do it programmatically?

Thanks in advance

Best Regards,
 Prithvi
http://www.prithvibhat.com

--- Miroslav Šulc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Prithvi,
> 
> I'm still in the "before newbie" stage but I guess
> it won't work the way
> you expect. I think it works this way:
> 
> You say: "Hey, give me  http://localhost/"
> And you get: "Hey, you should send request for
> http://localhost/default.html (or
> http://localhost/tp/default.html) to
> the server"
> 
> And then in the next request you can get the content
> of the page you are
> redirected to. So what you get is the information
> that you should send
> request for another page, not the new page itself.
> You'll get the new
> page on the next request (if you make the next
> request).
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> --
> Miroslav
> 
> Prithvi Bhat wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >    I am going mad with testing servlet
> redirections
> > using cactus.There are tons of articles on cactus
> on
> > the internet.None of them did help.I bought
> Vincent
> > Massol's book "Junit in Action" that too did not
> help.
> > Any one's help in this regard would be deeply
> > appreciated.
> >
> > My sample servlet to be tested is as below
> >  ==============================================
> >
> >    import java.io.IOException;
> >    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
> >    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
> >    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
> >
> >
> >    public class SampleServlet extends HttpServlet
> >    {
> >
> >        public void RedirectPage(HttpServletRequest
> > request,HttpServletResponse response)
> >  	  throws IOException
> >        {
> >        	String strRedirectorFlag =
> > request.getParameter("strRedirectorFlag");
> >
> >
>
System.out.println("strRedirectorFlag"+strRedirectorFlag);
> >
> >  		if (strRedirectorFlag.equals("1") )
> >  		{
> >
> > 		
> >
>
response.sendRedirect("http://localhost/default.html");
> >  		}
> >  		else
> >    	        {
> >
> > 		
> >
>
response.sendRedirect("http://localhost/tp/default.html");
> >  		}
> >
> >       }
> >   }//class SampleServlet
> >
> ===================================================
> > My test servlet is as below
> >
> ===================================================
> >    import java.io.IOException;
> >    import junit.framework.Test;
> >    import junit.framework.TestSuite;
> >
> >    import org.apache.cactus.ServletTestCase;
> >    import org.apache.cactus.WebRequest;
> >    import org.apache.cactus.WebResponse;
> >
> >    public class TestSampleServlet extends
> >    ServletTestCase
> >    {
> >
> >        public void beginRedirection(WebRequest
> > webRequest)
> >        {
> >  
> webRequest.addParameter("strRedirectorFlag","1");
> >        }
> >
> >        public void testRedirection()
> >        throws IOException
> >        {
> >            SampleServlet servlet = new
> > SampleServlet();
> >
> >            servlet.RedirectPage(request,response);
> >        }
> >
> >  	  public void endRedirection(WebResponse
> > webResponse)
> >  	  {
> >  	
> >
>
System.out.println("Response"+webResponse.getText());
> > 	
> >
>
assertTrue("udupi",webResponse.getText().indexOf("<TITLE>prithvibhat.com
> > 		 - Comprehensive information on Udupi</TITLE>")
> >
> > 0);
> > 	  }
> >
> >    }
> >
> > 
> ===================================================
> >
> >  If you see the code carefully in my Test case I
> want
> >  to check whether the redirection in my servlet
> was to
> >
> >  http://localhost/default.html or
> >  http://localhost/tp/default.html
> >
> >  So I use the response.getText() method to compare
> it
> >  with the page contents.Unfortunately getText()
> method
> >  always returns me NULL!
> >
> >  Please help...
> >
> >  Best Regards,
> >   Prithvi
> >
> >
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