Re: Testing RESTful services using GWTTestCase

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Raphael André Bauer
<raphael.andre.bauer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> what I want to do are two simple things:
> 1. Mock a RESTFul Api using a servlet.
> 2. Use that mock inside a GWTTestCase that retrieves data from that
> servlet and does some meaningful testing.
>
> I am running here into a lot of problems where the servlet is not
> started from the GWTTestCase, where the web.xml is not loaded and so
> on. Using a different server is not working either, because of the
> same origin policy of the built-in jetty.
>
> I stumbled across some nice posts from Alex Moffat:
> http://development.lombardi.com/?p=15
>
> But I guess this information is outdated because of the tomcat references.
>
>
> So. My question is: Does anybody use GWTTestCase to test GWT modules
> against a "real" RESTFul web service (mocked as described above - but
> running on the server). Or is this not a intended use case?

I solved it 99%. Check out also discussion
(http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/aab1eac5909c3437).

The way to go is to use a gwt.xml for your GWTTestCase with a servlet
definition.

<servlet class="yourServletClass" path="/test.json"/>

You can then test against that servlet simply by calling

GWT.getModuleBaseURL() + /test.json

This is a cool solution how to test my API. If anybody knows a
solution how to map my test.json into the root of my server I would be
totally happy. But it's also cool the way it is now.

Cheers,

Raphael

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