Question

This is probably a stupid question; however, I am out of options and would appreciate help. I am trying to mock file downloads using Robolectric. I am referring to the class HttpTest.java, and the Robolectric blog post.

My problem: Maven is unable to find the Http class referred to in the HttpTest.java code. I could manually bring it over as a class in the same package, but I ended up getting a NullPtrException in one of the methods of class Http.

I have searched on the net for a solution. I have also verified the modules configuration in the pom file. I do have com.pivotlabs present there.

Has anyone gotten this working? Please let me know what I am missing here.

Answer 1

I got this working.

1. Http is a class internal to Robolectric’s sample code. It can be used outside; but you might not want to do that if your code is gonna be built non-locally.
2. The clarification/mention in documentation that would have gone long way in helping me is: “Robolectric will give you the response you create using addPendingHttpResponse() for your HTTP request, no matter how you do the request. Robolectric will NOT do an actual HTTP request.” Once I understood this, rest was easy.
3. I used Apache’s DefaultHttpClient for my request, and verified received response against the already created response.

Hope this helps; I’d be happy to clarify further.

Thanks for the help I received here.

[I had asked this question on Robolectric’s google group as well.]