Question

I am trying to write some test code for my java application using Scalatest. I figured, since Scala has so much more readable syntax it would result with more readable test code.

So far, this is what I managed:

package com.xyz

import org.scalatest.FlatSpec
import org.scalatest.matchers.ShouldMatchers
import com.xyz.SecurityService
import org.mockito.Mockito._
import org.scalatest.mock.MockitoSugar
import org.mockito.Matchers._
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag

class CheckRoleTagSpec extends FlatSpec with ShouldMatchers with  MockitoSugar {

  behavior of "CheckRole tag"

  it should "allow access when neither role nor root defined" in {
    val securityServiceMock = mock[SecurityService]

    val tag = new CheckRoleTag()
    tag.setSecurityService(securityServiceMock)

    tag.setGroup("group")
    tag.setPortal("portal")

    tag.setRoot(false)
    tag.setRole(null)

    tag.doStartTag should be(Tag.SKIP_BODY)
  }

}

I am quite dissapointed with this code. It’s practically the same thing I would need to write in Java. Please help me make it more scala-like and functional.

Answer 1

The code below creates new anonymous class, but doStartTag returns result as expected:

...
(new CheckRoleTag{
   setSecurityService(mock[SecurityService])
   setGroup("group")
   setPortal("portal")
   setRoot(false)
   setRole(null)
} doStartTag) should be(Tag.SKIP_BODY)
...