Re: [TFUI] Mock The Server

Cory Foy wrote:

> > Here's a test case to show we hit the front page correctly:
> >
> >  def test_miniServerLikesTheFrontPage()
> >   response = servePage('FrontPage')
> >   assert_equal 200, response.status = 200
> >   assert_equal "text/html", response['Content-Type']
> >   assert_match /title.FrontPage..title/, response.body
> >  end
>
> I'm still trying to wrap my head around this, and think I'm almost
> there. So what you are saying is that using this server you can mock the
> HTTP request object, and get back a *real* Response from the server?
> Isn't this the same model used by HttpUnit, NUnitAsp and others?

I don't know about NUnitAsp, but HttpUnit uses a real server and a
real HTTP transmission over real network connections. (The connection
is probably the loopback inside a single computer, but it's still a
real network connection.)

In my sample, the production code thinks the 'request' object is real,
and came from a real server obeying a real HTTP hookup. It populates a
'response' object, and returns this to an object that it thinks is a
server. Then the test eats the 'response' object.

HTTP is such a thin, simple protocol that I don't understand why so
many *Unit rigs keep an entire server in the loop just to test that a
page comes back with the correct details in it.

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