I have been playing with Brian Kotek's ColdMock factory (http://coldmock.riaforge.com) in doing some unit testing for an app I am working on. In this case, I have a service object that needs to retrieve a record from the database via a DAO. I only want to test the service object and not the DAO / database, so I am trying to use ColdMock to create a mock DAO object that just returns a business object with some hard coded data.
The problem is, when my service goes to ColdSpring and requests the DAO, ColdSpring returns the mocked up DAO. However, that mocked up DAO does not contain any test data - in other words, if I call a function on that DAO, it throws an error. On Brian's site, he has code showing how to tell the mock object what to return when a function is called, but I can't see how to work that extra bit of code into the ColdSpring scenario. When my service calls ColdSpring to create the mock DAO, I would have to code in the extra functionality at that point which is no good considering the service is a real production object and should not know anything about a mock object. Am I missing something here with regards to how mock objects work or should function? Thanks -- Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:293154 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
