Question

I am trying to do a unit test on the list action of a controller. Here is the code for testing it :

  void testListAction()
   {
       ac = new AddressesController();

       def org = new Organizations(viewAllPost: true);
       mockForConstraintsTests(Addresses);
       def a = new Addresses(firstLine:'A', secondLine:'B', thirdLine:'C', luCountry:UnitedStates, zipCode:'12345', luState:Florida, city:'jag');
       assertTrue(a.validate());
       mockSession['currentUserOrganizationId'] = org;  

       mockDomain(Addresses, [
           new Addresses(firstLine:'A1', secondLine:'B', thirdLine:'C', luCountry:UnitedStates, zipCode:'12345', luState:Florida, city:'jag'),
           new Addresses(firstLine:'A2', secondLine:'B2', thirdLine:'C2', luCountry:UnitedStates, zipCode:'12344', luState:Florida, city:'jag2')
           ]);

        def model = ac.list();
       assertEquals(2, model.postInstanceList.size());
   }

But No matter how I tried I am always getting back the same result that the model.postInstanceList is null and I can not invoke the size method on it. What am I doing wrong here ?

Answer 1

You are not saving the instances. You should save:

mockDomain(Addresses)
new Addresses(firstLine:'A1', secondLine:'B', thirdLine:'C', luCountry:UnitedStates, zipCode:'12345', luState:Florida, city:'jag').save()

new Addresses(firstLine:'A2', secondLine:'B2', thirdLine:'C2', luCountry:UnitedStates, zipCode:'12344', luState:Florida, city:'jag2').save()

I would do it like this:

mockDomain(Addresses)
mockForContraintsTests(Addresses)
def address1 = new Addresses(firstLine:'A1', secondLine:'B', thirdLine:'C', luCountry:UnitedStates, zipCode:'12345', luState:Florida, city:'jag')
if(address1.validate()) address1.save()
def address2 = new Addresses(firstLine:'A2', secondLine:'B2', thirdLine:'C2', luCountry:UnitedStates, zipCode:'12344', luState:Florida, city:'jag2')
if(address2.validate()) address2.save()


assertEquals 2, Addresses.list().size()