Invoke Struts Action Test from within a web app (JSF managed bean): TestCase.fname cannot be null - spring

Question

I have a Junit 3.8 test of a Struts 2 action that runs with no problems from my workspace (from eclipse: right click > run as > junit test).
For this, I use two plugins:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-junit-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-spring-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.8</version>
</dependency>
Here is the test class:
package com.myapp.user.my;
import org.apache.struts2.StrutsSpringTestCase;
import com.myapp.user.action.UserAction;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionProxy;
public class TestAccountActionUsingStrutsTestCase extends StrutsSpringTestCase {
public void testUserNameErrorMessage() throws Exception {
request.setParameter("userBean.userName", "Bruc");
request.setParameter("userBean.password", "test");
ActionProxy proxy = getActionProxy("/userAction");
UserAction userAction = (UserAction) proxy.getAction();
proxy.execute();
assertTrue("Problem There were no errors present in fieldErrors but there should have been one error present", userAction.getFieldErrors().size() == 1);
assertTrue("Problem field user.userName not present in fieldErrors but it should have been",
userAction.getFieldErrors().containsKey("userBean.userName") );
System.out.println("Finish 1 test.");
}
}
Next, I try to invoke this test, this time from within a web application (a JSF managed bean).
Here is my code for trying to do that (I'm calling the following runTest() method from a managed bean):
import java.util.List;
import org.junit.runner.JUnitCore;
import org.junit.runner.Result;
import org.junit.runner.notification.Failure;
import com.myapp.user.my.TestAccountActionUsingStrutsTestCase;
public class CallStrutsActionExecuteThruTest {
public void runTest(){
System.out.println("CallStrutsActionExecuteThruTest.runTest() is executed.");
TestAccountActionUsingStrutsTestCase test = new TestAccountActionUsingStrutsTestCase();
JUnitCore jUnitCore = new JUnitCore();
Result result = jUnitCore.run(test);
List<Failure> list = result.getFailures();
for (Failure failure : list) {
System.out.println(failure.getMessage());
}
System.out.println("Test done!");
}
}
When I access the managed bean, I can see that runTest() is called. The first output CallStrutsActionExecuteThruTest.runTest() is executed. is printed to console. Strangely, the next outputs are not printed to console, although the debugger shows me they are executed.
Also, result.getFailures() returns a list with one element. As I said, its failure.getMessage() for some reason is not printed to console, but when I watch it in the debugger its value is TestCase.fname cannot be null.
* Even when I have only one method in my test class:
public void testTrue() throws Exception {
System.out.println("inside testTrue().");
assertTrue(true);
}
I still get the same results.
My questions are,
If I want to run the Struts action test from a JSF managed bean, am I using the Junit API correctly?
Why weren't the outputs that followed the first one printed to console?
How do I set TestCase.fname with a value? First I don't see a method in my test class to set this value. Second, from my understanding, fanme is the name of the test method in the test class that I want to call; and jUnitCore.run(test) should call all the test methods in the test class test, so how can I specify all these methods with only one fname parameter?
Download - you can download my project here. I use Maven, Eclipse, and deploy on Jboss 7.
I access the JSF managed bean by: http://localhost:8080/Struts2WithSpringDIIntegrationExampleJunitFromUI-1.0-SNAPSHOT/xhtml/hello.jsf

Answer 1

Struts2 tests don't work with raw parameters for some reason. Use parameterMap instead.
Map<String, String[]> parameterMap = new HashMap<String, String[]>();
parameterMap.put("userBean.userName", new String[]{"Bruc"});
parameterMap.put("userBean.password", new String[]{"test"});
StrutsMockHttpServletRequest request = new StrutsMockHttpServletRequest();
request.setupGetServletPath("/userAction");
request.setParameterMap(parameterMap);