Question

In grails 1.3.7, I access some external properties via the ConfigurationHolder in my controller. Googling around suggests I can use the following in the setup of my unit test:

    mockConfig '''
        sys.admin.username = "username"
        sys.admin.password = "password"
    '''

when my unit tests run ConfigruationHolder.config is null. So more googling lead me to try this in the setup:

    def mockedConfig = new ConfigObject()
    mockedConfig.sys.admin.username = "username"
    mockedConfig.sys.admin.password = "password"
    ConfigurationHolder.config = mockedConfig

still getting a null config object in the unit test. I also tried the hiearctical syntax for this first style and it didn’t work either:

    mockConfig('''
        sys { admin {
            username = 'username'
            password = 'password'
        } }
    ''')

I am new to grails so I am stumbling my way through this and would like to get my controller unit tested. How do I get around a null config object?

Answer 1

Alas, it was a timing issue. I held a reference to the configurationholder in my controller class:

def config = ConfigurationHolder.config

Moving that inside the method where it was needed worked.