Question

I’m trying to mock the action overview of a Controller, but it isn’t working.

I tried this ways:

MyController.metaClass.overview = { ->
        println "MOCKED OVERVIEW"
        render(view:"overview", model)
    }

MyController.metaClass.demand.overview = { ->
        println "MOCKED OVERVIEW"
        render(view:"overview", model)
    }

MyController.metaClass.static.overview = { ->
        println "MOCKED OVERVIEW"
        render(view:"overview", model)
    }

All this didn’t work.

But i used .metaClass to mock some services, and it worked.

Why with this action isn’t working ?

The println statment is never showed.

Answer 1

Action needs to be there during Grails’ bootstrap – in order to generate URLs and all the Spring beans. You can’t override it (that easy) after application is initialized.

Anyway, you souldn’t need to – actions should be simple. Any testable logic should be testable on its own.